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We used to have a recycling program at our school. We did what we could with empty printer paper boxes and whatever teachers had in their rooms to collect paper and plastic. The teacher who ran the recycling program has since left, and we have had no formal, organized recycling program for two years. It's time. These cans will provide a consistent, unified, easily recognizable recycling setup in every classroom. I realize the cost of the project is over the suggested amount, but this is a school-wide endeavor. There is a gung-ho retired teacher, an after-school club, a weekly Advisory period, and a representative at the county solid-waste facility backing our students in this undertaking, and we are committed to making it work. Students will be collecting, counting, and cleaning everything that comes into the building. We initially are focused on five items with these specific goals: plastic, paper, 100,000 plastic bags (to make jump ropes for phys ed classes and mats for the homeless); 200 lbs. of plastic bottle caps to be melted into a park bench, and 700 pounds of aluminum cans (one pound per student/staff member to raise $215 to pay for the park bench). Students will do all the weighing, sorting, and budgeting. My own Advisory class took this idea and ran with it, begging for compost piles for our school garden, movies-on-the-lawn fundraisers for tables for a daycare, and class competitions to collect aluminum cans. I don't want a trashcan shortage to slow them down. For $5, you can provide one can; for $15, you've outfitted one entire classroom and given the 100+ students who pass through its doors each day the means to recycle.

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We used to have a recycling program at our school. We did what we could with empty printer paper boxes and whatever teachers had in their rooms to collect paper and plastic. The teacher who ran the recycling program has since left, and we have had no formal, organized recycling program for two years. It's time. These cans will provide a consistent, unified, easily recognizable recycling setup in every classroom. I realize the cost of the project is over the suggested amount, but this is a school-wide endeavor. There is a gung-ho retired teacher, an after-school club, a weekly Advisory period, and a representative at the county solid-waste facility backing our students in this undertaking, and we are committed to making it work. Students will be collecting, counting, and cleaning everything that comes into the building. We initially are focused on five items with these specific goals: plastic, paper, 100,000 plastic bags (to make jump ropes for phys ed classes and mats for the homeless); 200 lbs. of plastic bottle caps to be melted into a park bench, and 700 pounds of aluminum cans (one pound per student/staff member to raise $215 to pay for the park bench). Students will do all the weighing, sorting, and budgeting. My own Advisory class took this idea and ran with it, begging for compost piles for our school garden, movies-on-the-lawn fundraisers for tables for a daycare, and class competitions to collect aluminum cans. I don't want a trashcan shortage to slow them down. For $5, you can provide one can; for $15, you've outfitted one entire classroom and given the 100+ students who pass through its doors each day the means to recycle.

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