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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!!

Over 370 pounds in our 1st week!

by Sara Walsh on February 22, 2008

RECYCLE, RECYCLE, RECYCLE!  These words have been floating around school for the past couple weeks as the Environmental Science class has been undertaking a school-wide project to increase recycling.  The first step the class decided to take was that of informing others of the problem of the large amounts of trash we regularly dump in landfills across the U.S.  Next the class took steps to prepare recycling containers for paper for each classroom and office throughout the school.  By next week, there will also be recycling bins for aluminum and plastic bottles in every building.  

Students in the environmental science class have undertaken the task of collecting these materials, preparing them to be recycled (rinsing and removing labels), and weighing them to keep track of the progress.  They have also created graphs to display the amount materials we have hauled off to be recycled; these will be updated on a weekly basis.  So far we have collected over 370--and this is in just one week!

The support from staff and students has been exceptional!  The Environmental Science class appreciates everyone working together to keep more of this material out of our Earth.