week 2 blog

          For my project, we are getting our school aware of recycling and encouraging them to do it at their homes. What our plan is to put up recycling bins all around the school. Every two weeks, there will be a different item that you can put in the bin. The three items that we will be accepting is cardboard, plastic bottles, and batteries. At the beginning of each new item, all the students will watch a short video that we are making so that they know how good it is to recycle them. We want them to realize how bad it is to just throw away those things where they will end up in the ground (landfills). What we are doing right now is contacting different places to get the recycling bins. We are also putting up posters in all the halls that will tell them about our project.

          Today we created a letter to send out to all of the teachers. We wanted the principal to send it out in an E-blast. When we contacted him, he said that he would definitely do it and that he loves our project. We also got in contact with a few recycling centers to ask for bins. One of the locations said that they would give us 6 bins to use for the rest of the year. This would obviously be very useful to our project. We are going to have this start on Monday or Tuesday and end sometime in May. We are hoping that we get as much recyclable items that we possibly can. It would definitely be a help to the community/environment. By the end of each week, we really want every bin to be filled up to the rim in the school.


          We have come up with a ton more ideas to do. What we want to do is have a contest in the school. Every class will make something out of completely recycled items in the elementary. The winner of each wing will get to plant a couple trees at school. Something else we want is for every kid to have a tree seed sent home with them for Earth Day. Another idea that we have is to have a paper drive on a Saturday in the parking lot of the school. We will give fliers all around the neighborhood and encourage everyone to bring all their newspapers and any other kind. Something we looked into is a place called Tree Huggers. They take anything recyclable and turn it into household usable items. We want to give our items we collect to them to make more out of them. After all, we are trying to help out in the world and make it a better place for others.