School-Wide Recycling

Lead Teacher: Heather Reit

Mentor: Traude Sander

Our entire LES community recycles all office and classroom paper products, plastic containers and jugs, aluminum cans, and cardboard. On Thursdays our recycling captains collect bins from classrooms and other areas of the school and take them to the collection site. At lunch, we collect all recycling as well. At the beginning of the year, Mrs. Reit goes to every classroom for recycling lessons that included students sorting and classifying items that can be recycled and composted.

Students completed a training at the beginning of the school year by Mrs. Reit. Students will then be expected to lead their classrooms in the recycling efforts in their own classrooms. (Recycling Captains)

Throughout the year, materials that are unrecyclable are sent back to the classrooms for a quick mini-lesson on why it isn't recyclable.