Recycling Program News
Announcement: The Parent Organization has included the recycling committee as one of its committees this year. Please join me in welcoming my co-chair Mrs. Régine Cantacuzène to the recycling committee.
News from Primary School: The Primary School students resumed recycling duties on September 7. We are looking for parent volunteers to supervise these duties. We will be sending out detailed information via e-mail on how you can get involved. Please volunteer and support their efforts.
Recycling Patrol Academy: Please come cheer the commissioning of the first flock of cadets from The Recycling Patrol Academy at WorldFest (Sunday, October 30). To qualify as cadets, the students have to tell us the efforts they have put in to reuse, reduce and recycle at school or elsewhere to make Earth a better place. It could be something simple like,”I was on the soccer field and saw some bottles, so I picked them up and took them to the recycling bin.” They can either draw their accomplishment(s), write them, tell us or e-mail us at ayesha_siraj@yahoo.com or s_cantacuzene@bellsouth.net, whichever means is the easiest for them. If it is a picture or a write-up, please ask them to drop it off in the Primary School office. We will have a folder at the front desk to collect these precious stories and pictures. The students can participate from the following grades: 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Food for thought: What is a waste-free lunch? Waste-free lunch programs favor the use of reusable food containers, drink containers, utensils, and napkins. They discourage the use of disposable packaging, such as prepackaged foods, plastic bags, juice boxes and pouches, paper napkins, and disposable utensils.
It has been estimated that, on average, a school-age child using a disposable lunch generates 67 pounds of waste per school year. That equates to 18,760 pounds of lunch waste for just one average-size elementary school.
To learn more about lunch ideas and waste-free lunch program please visit www.wastefreelunches.org. Special thanks to Sylvia Williams for providing this information.