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Mrs. Martel from Toccoa GA is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Recycling to Help Our Environment!

My students need recycling containers and lids for our recycling program.

  • $559 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Do you do your part to help the environment? My students are trying to do their part by recycling materials found in our classroom and at home. They are also earning money for our butterfly habitat garden as they recycle.

I teach in a rural school in beautiful NE Georgia.

My students are a very active group! We have been working with Terracycle.com for the past 3 years, collecting and recycling potato chip bags. We earn money for each chip bag that we send to Terracycle.com. We use that money to improve our butterfly habitat garden. Terracycle.com then upcycles the potato chip bags and turns them into other useful items. This helps to keep trash out of our landfills and we provide a natural habitat in our schoolyard!

My Project

My students would like to expand our recycling program! Terracycle.com offers other programs where we can recycle a variety of items. We have joined the shoe brigade and the glue bottle brigade. We are going to collect used shoes and empty glue bottles and glue sticks. We will send these items to Terracycle.com and they will turn these items into other items! However, we have a storage problem. We need recycling containers to hold the shoes and glue bottles and glue sticks! Having 32 gallon cans with lids will provide a great storage solution! Not only are we keeping trash out of the landfill, but Terracycle.com also pays us to send them trash! We will receive $0.02 for each glue bottle and glue stick and $0.10 for each pair of shoes. That doesn't sound like a lot, but believe me, it adds up quickly! With this money, we are purchasing new plants for our butterfly habitat garden. We are recycling and providing habitat to help our environment!

You can help my students to help the environment!

By funding our project, you will help to keep trash out of the landfills and help us earn money for plants for our butterfly habitat garden.

Mrs. Martel
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
TOP-BRUTE RECYCLING-BE - RCP1788380 • School Specialty Inc. $22.14 6 $132.84
RECYCLING CONTAINER HEAVY DUTY 32 GAL. 22''X22''X27 1/4'' BLUE • School Specialty Inc. $39.80 6 $238.80

Materials cost

$371.64

Vendor shipping charges

$37.16

Sales tax

$25.64

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.57

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$475.01

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$83.83

Total project goal

$558.84

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$558.84

22 Donors

-$271.22

Donations toward project cost

-$237.50

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.72

match offer

-$279.42

Match offer toward project cost

-$237.51

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$41.91

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.19

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$0.00

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