A district-wide recycling  program will be implemented by early March, RCS Facilities Director Gene Doane said recently.

Doane said on Friday that he has ordered approximately 200 recycling bins that will be placed in rooms throughout the district's four schools.

As soon as they are delivered, Doane said facilities and custodial staff will distribute them and the recycling will begin.

Home-made recycling bins - created by the National Honor Society - will continue to be used in the high school until they are too worn or need to be replaced, he said.

Driven by the popularity of a honor society's white paper recycling program in the high school and a similar initiative sponsored at Pieter B. Coeymans sponsored by the Habitat Club, Superintendent Vicki Wright announced earlier this month that RCS would launch a district-wide program.

Custodial staff will collect the paper and cardboard at all four schools and bring it back to the main collection point at the high school.

"It should be a pretty smooth start-up," he said.