Recycling - 1 week later & 250 gallons saved!

We had a great run this week, with lots of stuff that got recycled. Lots of students volunteered to help sort the recyclables, and organize the lunch lines. We had one large 50 gallon trash bag full of plastic recyclable materials everyday. We reduced actual trash by 2/3! By the end of the week, most of the students had gotten used to what we were doing, and were sorting their garbage themselves, placing plastics and aluminum in the correct bins, and trash in another.

Students are helping others to sort their trash, and educating them on what is, and what is not recyclable. By the end of the week we saw many sorting their own before reaching our sorting station.

Student volunteers pose with one week's worth of recyclable materials. Wow! That's a lot of stuff that could have been thrown out!

Here's another view of all the 'trash' we saved, and that will be recycled this week. The steel cans in the front are from the kitchen personnel - that's what a lot of our food comes in (stuff like fruit, tomato ketchup, beans, etc.) 5 bags in all (50 gallon bags) = 250 gallons of recyclable stuff from lunch at FMS!