Monday, April 21, 2008

FMSSC Recycles!

FMS Student Council is sponsoring a recycling effort in order to promote Earth awareness in anticipation of Earth Day, April 22nd, 2008. As a first effort, they decided to recycle the various plastics used / thrown away during lunch at the Middle School. In just one day, where lunch is served to about 450 students, they were able to collect an entire garbage can full of recyclable materials - mostly plastic milk pint containers from Smith's Dairy.

Student Council is collecting recyclable stuff, including the liquid waste, for an entire week, in hopes that it will spur enough awareness to begin school district-wide recycling of plastics and aluminum. In addition, they are holding a competition between grade levels to see who can recycle the most, and produce the least liquid waste.


Students at FMS hold up one day's worth of recyclable materials from lunch. Just imagine how much we've already thrown out! Maybe we can do better in the future...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I think it is very important to recycle because it helps our environment. I also believe that the sixth graders do have a chance of winning the contest! I just have one question. Are you accurately measuring the liquid waste and are you really measuring the recycling?
I myself recycle and promote others as well. I believe that if everyone recycled we would be living in a better place and we could in the future. Thank you for your time.