Students launch white paper recycling effort

Members of the RCS High School National Honor Society are going “green” – launching a white paper recycling project that is expected to collect tons of white paper.

Society members kicked-off the effort on Thursday – National Recycling Awareness Day – and plan to continue through the remainder of the school year, said Honor Society advisor Vicki Jones.

The students placed approximately 25 collection bins that they made throughout the school. They will collect the paper from the bins and drive it to a recycling center in Albany, which the National Honor Society has made an arrangement with.

“This is another excellent example of our students seeing a need, addressing it and helping make the community a better place,” said Superintendent Vicki Wright.

National Honor Society Co-Advisor Stephanie Branley said the students have “really run with the project” since it was first discussed. “We (the advisors) have had nothing to do with it ever since the idea was raised.”