Recycling Update

As you know, our school's recycling has been a main topic for this year's Roots and Shoots club. Our goal is to raise our total waste disposal from 35% recycling to 45-50% by the end of the school year in June. So far, we have spoken to the head of Facilities, a representative from our waste management company Sustainable Waste Management, the Middle School principal, and the Middle and High School Student Councils. We told the Student Councils about our findings on the cafeteria recycling and how the recycling is being contaminated by food waste. We decided that our best solution was to have students stand by the bins and help other students to choose the correct ones. This program will start next week and go on for a total of two weeks because that is about the right amount of time to create a habit. Our principal also spoke about not contaminating the recycling bins in a whole school assembly earlier in the week. Hopefully we can keep the recycling from becoming contaminated and raise awareness among students on how and why to recycle.