Environmental Club: Recycle Project

On Thursday, February 9th, I conducted an Environmental Club meeting. The meeting topic was to introduce recycling to Carrollton High School. I introduced some ways that we could implement recycling like getting a group of students to collect the bags every day and driving them to the county recycling center. The students who attended the meeting agreed and put out some sources that would be open to doing such. One club member stated to only recycle plastic bottles so It'll be easier to recycle. Students at Carrollton High School use a lot of plastic water bottles. The cafeteria also sells plastic bottles. We settled on the concept of setting out recycling bins that only accept plastic bottles so it will be easy to recycle. We will collect them every day, or as many times as we need to, and take them to the recycling center. 

We came up with the idea of placing a QR code on the bin so there could be an incentive for the students who recycle. If students scan the QR code, they can state their first block teacher. Whichever first block teacher has the most students recycling will have an incentive like a Chick-Fil-A breakfast! Not only will this be good for the environment, but people who look at Carrollton High School will also be impressed that students are recycling their plastic bottles.

This is an incredibly important idea to introduce to Carrollton High School. It helps the environment by reusing the plastic being used by our school. The reputation of our school will also become increasingly good by our possibly new recycling policy. I am really proud of our Environmental Club and how far we have come with introducing new ideas. My next hopes are to continue our campus clean-ups and hikes. We also have a new project with Southwire that may be coming up in the next month. I am ready to see how we can keep Carrollton High School green and clean!