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Ms. Gibson from Rockingham NC is requesting reading nooks, desks & storage through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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It Is Our Duty to Save the Environment's Beauty

Help me give my students a recycling program. My student council would like to start a recycling program. We need a recycling bin for each classroom, two work rooms, and one for the cafeteria.

  • $453 goal

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My Students

I am the school counselor at a Title I elementary school in North Carolina. Our students range from Pre Kindergarten-5th grade. We are a small child centered school located in a low socioeconomic area. We have about 350 students who all receive free breakfast and lunch. In addition to the school counselor I am the student council staff advisor. My student council is made up of 3rd-5th graders. In order to run for a student council office position each student was required to write a speech that was read aloud to the student body. Our president for the 2019-2020 school year would like to focus on recycling. She gave a speech about how much paper is wasted on a daily basis and how recycling would make a positive impact on our environment. Our students have shown an interest in recycling this year and would like to start a recycling program to make our school and community a better place.

My Project

Please help to fund a recycling program for my school. My 3rd-5th grade student council members have shown an interest in recycling.

Students are concerned about the amount of paper and other materials that are thrown in the trash each day.

Our students would like for our school to start a recycling program. Our county has provided our school with an outdoor recycling dumpster that will be picked up by the county recycling services. Our school is responsible for collecting and placing any recyclable items in that special dumpster. As of now most items go into the regular trash dumpster. Our county will accept the following items in the outdoor recycling dumpster:

Plastic: Bottles, tubs, jugs.

Metal: All cans.

Paper: paper, cartons, and cardboard.

Our current student council president wrote a speech that was read aloud to our student body about why we should recycle and pointed out how many recyclable items we see going into the trash every day.

Ms. Gibson
Grades 3-5

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Rubbermaid Commercial Products Fg295773Blue Plastic Resin Deskside Recycling Can, 10 Gallon/41 Quart, Blue Recycling Symbol • Amazon Business $9.72 20 $194.40
Rubbermaid Commercial Products Fg9W2773Blue Brute Rollout Heavy-Duty Wheeled Recycling Can/Bin, 50-Gallon, Blue Recycling • Amazon Business $64.99 2 $129.98

Materials cost

$324.38

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $25.30

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$384.55

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$67.86

Total project goal

$452.41

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $452.41

8 Donors

-$443.59

Donations toward project cost

-$384.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$59.04

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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 $0.00

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