Guilford Elementary School started this program on February 12, 2014. We continue to help the Crayola Company turn markers into clean-burning fuel, roofing, and asphalt. This up-cycling program helps to reduce our school waste. This company will recycle any markers. Students, staff, and parents can bring their markers from home also to the marker recycling center in our workroom. They are counted and then shipped to the Crayola Company. Crayola school upcycling program had to stop because of Covid for safety reasons in 2020. The company has temporarily suspended it. We hope it will start back soon.

Our students, staff,and community have upcycled over 4,464 markers to the Crayola ColorCycle program.

In 2015, Guilford started recycling used clothes with Cash for Clothing. The Capital Clothing Recyclers, LLC ( Tom Hamorsky, Jr. -Director) picks up used clothing from their bin in our parking lot every month and recycles it. In return, we receive money to help with supporting community environmental projects. We have collected 29,942 lbs of used clothing from April 2018 - February 2022.

Collection of Used Clothing - April 2018 - February 2022

31,506.52 lbs. of used clothing collected

GES has been ink and Electronic recycling with Office Depot since 2014. Staff and the public can bring in their unwanted cell phones or ink cartridges and we will ship them to Office Depot for recycling.

Staff and Community are able to drop off their batteries to recycled. They are taken to Alpha Ridge Recycle Center, Marriotsville, MD.

Our students (in all grades K-5, 460 students) and staff had a fundraiser event for WE Walk With Water Campaign for WE during field day. They walked with water jugs for 20 to 30 min. around the field for one of the events. WE Walk With Water simulates what people in countries like Africa do to walk for clean water every day. Our school raised $275 with a WE match. We donated $500 to a WE Village in Africa.

Below students ,staff, and volunteers are walking the field for WE Walk With Water event for Field Day.

Our school has done Jump Rope for Heart for many years (since 2007). We have donated many thousands of dollars to the American Heart Association. Our students who sign up participate in a jump rope circuit in the gym every year.