As a member of the Recycling and Sustainability service group our goal is to: Reduce the ecological footprint of the school community through programs in weekly recycling, awareness building and active engagement with global environmental issues at a local level. Every thursday we meet together as a group and discuss which classes/blocks we need to collect paper from or which classes need a recycling box before splitting up into groups. Most days we would gather paper/cardboard from S/M block or Admin and somedays we would go to the primary section to collect paper.
During our last meeting we had small groups carry one box each and collect paper/cardboard from Admin, S/M block, primary, and the art classes, and took note of who needed box’s and who didn’t. After that we all met at the Recycling shed near the buses. There we had a truck waiting for us to load all the paper/cardboard on to deliver to the recycling centre. 3 other students and myself went along with a teacher to the recycling centre which was 2 minutes away from the campus and there unloaded all the paper off the truck. Based on the weight of the paper and cardboard altogether the shop owner would pay us money. Once we got back to campus we all met at Mr. Lockwoods classroom and began making/decorating box’s to the classrooms that needed a recycling box.
