“By teaching the children to be environmental stewards now, we hope to encourage a lifelong belief in reducing, reusing and recycling.” said Mrs. Robin Kruzner, principal at Desert Christian. “Showing students how to care for the planet is one of the ways we can continue to equip students for godly living in our focus to educate the whole student; spiritually, intellectually, socially and physically.”
As part of the program, students have collected more than 600 plastic bottles and aluminum cans to be recycled. The program comes just in time for this year’s annual America Recycles Day, which will be celebrated on Nov. 15. In preparation, parents, students and faculty were given educational information on how to recycle properly by Waste Management of Antelope Valley.
“By providing recycling guidance and support to this program, we hope to empower future leaders and their mentors as we work together to protect the future of recycling,” said Ashley Cortes, commercial recycling manager with Waste Management of Antelope Valley.
Students and teachers invite the community to join them in taking the Waste Management pledge by following these recycling rules at home:
- Keep recyclables loose, keeping plastic bags and bagged recyclables out of your recycling.
- Keep foods, liquids and greasy pizza boxes out of your recycling.
- Recycle all empty bottles, cans, paper, cardboard and glass.
- Keep trash, yard waste and all polystyrene products out of your recycling.
For more information about how recycling, visit www.rorr.com or contact Waste Management’s Residential Recycling Manager, Ali Van der Eyk, at avander@wm.com.
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Brett Mastema says
so did they use recycled paper to make all those leaves? how exactly does this actually do anything? Were there kids that didn’t sign and said “nah I don’t have time to recycle”? They basically made a paper tree with each kids name on a leaf.
It mainly teaches the kids about how to make an empty gesture, rather than actually trying to solve a problem.
How is this a news story?
Sustainability says
“The school launched an on-campus recycling program to teach future generations the importance of sustainability, responsibility and protecting the environment.”
And the mothers of most of those children are driving gas guzzling SUVs.
Stay strong says
Are they? How do you know? At least the kids, and their families are doing something. Maybe some of these kids will grow up with a deeper concern for God’s creation and continue to recycle and even become hybrid car owners one day. The one thing we can be sure of, is that they will not be able to rid the world of the negativism and the naysayers. Unfortunately, there are those who will always see a dark side in everything.
Nancy Naysayer says
at least they are doing something? they said they promise to separate the recyclables and then made a paper tree and contacted the paper to say they collected 600 bottles. hopefully that was only a weeks worth of effort since 600 bottles isnt that much.
pad thai says
Waste Management does not care about recycling. They care about money. Every can, bottle and plastic container that passes through their facility is money in their pocket and they get to keep the CRV value.
WM had a big problem once.. ….The poor and homeless were digging through dumpsters and trash cans and turning in the recyclables for themselves.. But then they had a great idea.. lets offer every non-residential customer (parks, appt complexes, businesses, schools etc.. ) a large green dumpster just for recyclables, and lets LOCK it so no bums and poor can dig through them.. and bingo.. more money for WM.. and it worked like a charm.
Sad.. if I throw a recyclable away, i would rather see the money go to those who need it, not some rich company.
sad man says
recyclable is good
sad says
Court time.