Recycle Everything '97-98!
Mendocino Middle School students involved in the MMS 1998 Recycling Everything! project have made a good start with their recycling program this year. The year began with an overview of trash in society and at school and what we do with it. They learned about solid waste management systems and made a simulated landfill. They learned three concepts reduce, reuse, recycle. Students did an assessment of the amount of food and paper thrown away at the MS, developed a recycling plan for white and colored paper, aluminum, glass, plastic, newpapers, cardboard and magazines at the MS.
They brought recycled materials to the Fort Bragg Recycling Center
1-2 times per month, and documented each trip with writing in
a journal. Money from the grant and earned from the aluminum cans
helped purchase needed materials for the project including gloves,a
heavy duty paper shredder,a spring scale and a subscription to
Worm Digest.Information about recycling was shared with the rest
of the school student body and staff via the school bulletin.
