Georgiana Carson and Ashley Page have put together the Greenway Elementary
School Environmental Club with a grant from the Public Education Foundation
"Grants for Great Ideas" (Project Green Machine category).
The club's initial focus is recycling and waste reduction. They
also plan to address energy and water conservation some time during the
year.
Above, students collect office paper from classrooms on Friday mornings.
The blue recycle bins are then emptied into the school's recycle dumpster.
At right, students are flattening cardboard boxes to place in the school's
cardboard recycle dumpster. The recycle dumpsters cost much less
to maintain than the regular trash dumpsters, thus, the students will be
saving their school money while learning about the positive impact their
efforts have on preserving earth's resources.
Students learn to read the school's meter
and graph energy use. They learned about renewable and non-renewable
energy sources.
