Student recycling is cleaning up

An effort by RCS students to recycle paper is successful and students are struggling to meet requests for additional recycling bins for classrooms throughout the school.

The students – members of the National Honor Society – make their own paper recycling bins out of copy paper boxes and have distributed  more than two-dozen decorated collection bins to classrooms and offices throughout the high school and have a waiting list of another dozen locations.

“The paper is stacking up quickly.  We are still providing boxes to teachers who want them because we are waiting for copy paper boxes (something else that is being recycled in this process) to be emptied,” said honor society co-advisor Vicki Jones.

The students collect the bins from the classrooms and dump them in white paper recycling bins in the rear of the school.

The project – started in November on National Recycling Awareness Day – is the brainchild of National Honor Society students who  saw a need to do something about the hordes of paper thrown away in the school. It will continue through the end of the school year, said Jones.