Students encouraged to recycle
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But best of all, how would you like to have a pizza party? That’s right, pizza for your class if you manage to be the class in your school that generates the most recycled materials.
The Warren County Litter Program and the Tennessee Department of Transportation are sponsoring a four-week recycling event that will begin late this month and extend into April.
“We’re really trying to get children involved in recycling,” said Melanie Lanier, who is working with litter grant coordinator Mary Lou Ward on the project. “Because children are the key anyway.”
Ward and Lanier said organizers have made an effort to contact all schools in the area.
“We’ve contacted 14 schools,” Lanier said, “including private schools and county schools.”
The contest actually began earlier this year, but so far only four schools have responded: Centertown, West Elementary, Hickory Creek and Eastside. The contest has been extended into next month to give more schools a chance to enter. The schools have a chance to win a variety of prizes.
One class from every participating school will be rewarded with:
• A pizza party
• $50 in cash
• A field trip to WastAway
In addition, each participating school will receive an additional $50 just for getting involved. The rules are pretty simple. The recycled items to be included in the contest are:
• Aluminum cans
• Cardboard (food and cereal boxes, shoe boxes, health and beauty aid boxes, tissue and paper tower rolls)
• Paper (newsprint, paperback books, magazines, junk mail, etc.)
Because the competition will be between classes, it is the school’s choice on how to administer this event. Items may be brought from home, collected at the school or during ball games and other after-school activities.
Remember to keep a running total of item weights. Forms are available to aid in keeping track of collected items, and can be obtained from Ward.
For more information call Ward at the director of accounts office at 473-2381.