WSET Launches 3 R’s Educational Campaign in East Texas Child Care Centers to Celebrate Keep America Beautiful Month

Workforce Solutions East Texas • April 29, 2022

Pictured: New Recycling Area at Stepping Stone in Tyler, TX

To celebrate Keep America Beautiful Month in April, Workforce Solutions East Texas launched a 3'R's – Reduce, Reuse Recycle – educational campaign in East Texas child care centers that participate in the Texas Rising Star program. Texas Rising Star (TRS) is a quality rating and improvement system for Texas early childhood programs in which the participating centers meet higher quality standards than many other child care programs.


The 3 R's was created to encourage TRS programs to develop a recycling program and reinforce the concept of recycling within their facilities. Staff provided 85 TRS programs with a curriculum for the month with activities, resources, and parent involvement activities, including:

  • Book - "The 3 R's" by Nuria Roca and Rosam Curto
  • Play recycle truck
  • Learn to Recycle sorting activity boxes
  • "I Recycled Today" stickers and Earth Day badges
  • 3 recycle bins to encourage parent involvement


Development of an educational video is also underway, partnered with the East Texas Council of Governments Solid Waste Program and Region 7 Education Service Center, which all TRS providers will receive.


Workforce Solutions East Texas is proud to be one of the top-performing areas in the State for Texas Rising Star. Our board is honored to have received outstanding performance awards for this program in 2017, 2018, and 2019 from the Texas Workforce Commission. To find out more about the East Texas TRS program, visit https://www.easttexasworkforce.org/texas-rising-star. 

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