Urban Arts educated over 135 children and their families on waste reduction and recycling practices that can be done at home. Students setup two worm bins, one each outside the lunch room and kitchen. All students took turns to properly feed and care for the worm bins. Kindergarten through eighth grade students conducted a paper drive and made paper and numerous art projects from handmade paper, art journals and origami. Preschool through eighth graders used scales to measure food waste from lunches and snacks, program wide and then fed the two new worm bins located on both floors of our school. Urban Arts Academy saved 42 pounds of food waste from landfills from the start of the grant. Forty-six students made “record bowls” from old records which were headed to a landfill, used old broken tiles from the Reuse Center to create classroom mosaics, created mini compost bins out of litter pop bottles and terrariums and planted seeds, created cities out on non-recyclable containers and paper mache. Students created their own governments, wrote their own laws and talked about civil rights issues and how green cities solved different societal issues. A hundred and ten families attended after school family nights, which featured resource bins on holiday waste, packaging reduction, packing a waste-free lunch, junk mail reduction, and opting out of yellow page delivery. Urban Arts hosted claymation workshops where 46 elementary age students worked in film crews to create claymation videos about worm composting and recycling. Students then showcased their videos at a family night with 265 people in attendance. After a month long workshop, the Urban Arts Reuse Band performed at the Bancroft Midsummer Festival and the Midtown Farmer Market promoting recycling & green living.