As the school year comes to a close, Students For Sustainability has created a new recycling program to implement in our high school. Because the last few days of school is often consumed with emptying lockers and classrooms and getting rid of classwork, we have found that students become exceptionally lazy about recycling recyclables. This mainly comes in the form of paper, for students would rather throw away a binder full of paper than take the time to separate the paper from the binder and recycle it.
Our goal with this program it to streamline and simplify the recycling process for students. We are both making recycling bins more common around the school as well as locating them so it's closer to the students than the trashcan is. We are also taking out the work of separating notebooks, binders, etc. from recyclables and accepting all forms of semi-recyclable material.
Once the school years ends, SFS students will collect the bins that we put out, and sort all of the recyclables into their various categories. Luckily, our National Honor Society Club's main project this year was a school supply drive, in which we will be donating all of the school supplies that we collect in the recycling bins. All other materials will be transported to the Teton County Recycling Center and be appropriately disposed of.
While we a club unique to the high school, we will be in contact with the middle school and elementary schools of the district reminding them that as the year comes to a close to get rid of their materials responsibly.
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