Recycling

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In addition to the normal paper recycling we do throughout the school, this year we added plastic, metal, and glass bottle recycling. We bought trash cans with lids, cut holes in the tops of the lids, and strategically placed the cans throughout the school.  We are encouraging students to recycle instead of throwing away their trash. Above is a picture of the front entrance to our school, where we placed a recycling container.

 

 

 

 Above, is a picture taken outside our school that advertised details for the recycling fair that we hosted on our football field.

 

 

 Every week the ecology students take time from class to go to each of the class rooms and to gather paper to be recycled. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On January 18th ecology students helped load electronics in the recycling van.  We collected old computers, televisions, batteries, chargers, radios, cords, cellular devices, and even bicycles.

 

Recycle Force came to our school to pick up electronics for recycling.  We later took a field trip to see what would become of the electronics.

 

 

 

Recently, the ecology class, as well as our Tech Squad, journied to a recycling plant. At the plant we learned that not just pieces for electronics are able to be recycled but wires and parts that connect to the monitors or mouses are also able to be recycled.

 

 

At the recycling plant the workers placed the different parts of electronics into bins for sorting. 

 Another part of the recycling plant contained boxes for CD-roms and A-Drives.  Nothing at this plant ends up in a landfill.

Computer monitors are compacted and ready to be sent some where else to be recycled.

 

 

This is a pile of DVD players that will be taken apart.

Here lies a pile of organized electronics that will be broken down and recyled.

The end of the machine that loads the the recycling parts.

The big recycling machine, also known as The Beast, that shredded the electronics. The spare parts that can be taken are sold and then the other parts will be melted down to be used for other materials.

 

Where the shredded parts are seperated and broken down

 

The recycling group decided to calculate the last five years of recycling at our school and we gathered that through out a period of four years and three months we have recycled a total of 55.45 tons of paper products. Our school is also striving to reduce the use of paper by conducting No Paper Days for teachers. On these days the teachers at our school attempt to create a lesson plan in which the entire class period uses no paper to learn, the best way to achieve this is do the lesson electronicly. We are in the process of adding more No Paper Days next year.