Student initiative spurs district-wide ‘green’ effort

The RCS school district will begin a recycling  program in all four schools in the coming weeks.

RCS Facilities Director Gene Doane told the Board of Education on Monday that the popularity of a white paper recycling program in the high school - sponsored by the National Honor Society - and a similar initiative sponsored at Pieter B. Coeymans sponsored by the Habitat Club - led to the decision to start a district-wide program.

Doane said he met Monday with representative of Cross Refuse in Selkirk and they will deliver a dumpster to the high school next week. Bins will be placed in all approximately 200 classrooms in the district as soon as they are delivered from the manufacturer.

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.

Superintendent Vicki Wright on Tuesday said praised the district's students for the initiative and Doane for responding so quickly to the obvious desire of our students to be more "eco-friendly."