Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

GHS students try recycling project

We all know that Mrs. Williams classes involve keeping yourself and your family healthy by knowing how to cook healthy foods, properly take care of your children, what products are best to buy for you and your family and many other subjects that have to do with your health.

But, recently, several students stepped outside of the box and decided to do a completely different project. They started a recycling center and collection agency right in their very own high school.

Five students from Gurdon High School worked together and made recycling bins to place inside of their schools lunch facilities and hallways to collect paper, plastic and aluminum cans to have them sent to be recycled once a week.

One member of the group had this to say about the project: Many people dont realize that the environment plays an important role on our health. If we do not take action now to keep it clean, it will become extremely polluted and can hurt future generations. We only have one earth, so we must take care of it at all cost. this may seems like a small piece of a big picture, but its a start.

The students in this group even went to speak with children at Gurdon Primary School about recycling and how they are the future of this world and must start now to change in order to keep it clean.

They also left their recycling bins at the school for the students to use for the rest of the year. They said that the students look up to high school students, and if they see them doing it, they are more likely going to want to recycle as well.

It only takes a few people with a big cause to change the world, one student said. If these students can change their school system into a recycling one, then the possibilities are endless if you put your mind to it.

DID YOU KNOW?

Each ton of recycled newspaper saves 3.5 cubic yards of landfill space

recycling aluminum cans saves 95 percent of the energy needed to produce new cans from raw materials

for every 14,000 plastic bottles and jugs recycled, we save 5.65 cubic yards of landfill space

Recycling steel (tin) cans saves 60 percent of the energy needed to produce new cans from raw materials