RECYCLING UPDATE!
Hopefully you’ve all received your copy of the newspaper article written about our students and their recycling efforts! If you haven’t please let me know.
Current Statistics!!
Since receiving our recycling bin from Abitibi Recycling in January, we have recycled a whopping 9.67 TONS of paper and have earned approximately $150.00 for our school!! Keep sending in those newspapers and magazines!
This year students in our program, with the help of students in Mrs. Zarzycki’s class, initiated a schoolwide recycling program to raise money for our school. Our students manage the first floor recycling and Mrs. Zarzycki’s class is in charge of the 2nd floor recycling. Each afternoon,manned with carts and clipboards, students collect, weigh and document the pounds collected from each classroom. At the end of the week, students add up each classroom’s weekly total and record it on a chart in the main hallway. The class who has the most paper collected each week gets a yellow star on the graph. By the end of the year, the class who has won the most times throughout the year will win a special reward!
Mrs. Edgerton,
My name is Dale Werth and my son Scott went to Whitmore Bolles, class of 2004. I was very excited to see the large recycling poster in the hall way last time I stopped by to visit. I asked Mrs. Eule who was in charge of the recycling program and she gave me your name. I am one of the leaders in a civic group we call “Team Dearborn”. You have probably never heard of us and probably never will. We like it that way. We are a behind the scenes kind of group that gets things started and then lets the
individuals involed take over. One of our past projects is the defibrillators in all of the public schools and city buildings. Our latest project is to get our public schools and city certified as “green”. We knew we had to start somewhere so we started with recycling. In doing some research we found that some of the public schools had the paper recycle bins and some do not. We would like the school board to recommend that all of the schools get on board with this project. We also want the citizens of Dearborn to get on board and start filling the schools bins with their newspapers instead of giving them to Waste Management which as citizens we pay to get rid of. We have spoken to most of the school board members and they are on board with the project. What I am asking of you is could you put in writing what steps you took to get the program started? I have also been in contact with Ms. Haddad from Edsel Ford who is going to help us with this project. Eventually we would like yourself, Ms. Haddad and some of your and her students to make a presentation to the school board on how important this subject is and why all schools should be doing this. Then further down the road we can work on other means of recycling such as plastic bottles etc. Please consider this idea and let me know what you think. You can email me or call me on my cell phone at any time. 313-806-7923
Thank you,
Dale werth
I was just wondering if you take all kinds of paper for this? At my office we have some regular 8 1/2 x 11paper that is not going to be used. Can I drop this off in the box for my sons class?