Merrimac Elementary School is going green. Their school has a recycling program called “Kids Helping Kids.”
Kids Helping Kids Recycling reduces the amount of waste entering landfills and teaches the importance of helping others. Due to the support and guidance of Donna Greve, a fourth grade teacher, and students, the program continues to flourish.
Each class gets a recycling box to put their bottles in, so the entire school is recycling. They are busy at work collecting, sorting, and returning bottles to help raise money for the school.
Fourth graders collect water bottles from the recycle bins in the cafeteria and bring them to the recycling center to separate the bottles and put them in the right boxes. Fifth graders collect water bottles from every classroom once a week and then sort them.
So far, this school year they returned 7,504 bottles and raised $375.20. They chart data to see progress towards their goal of raising $550 by the end of the year.
This year’s top recycler is Jainna Becker who has recycled 1,617 bottles and raised $80.85. Just this month, Jainna collected and returned 998 water bottles that she collected from family and friends.
Collectively they are able to help many students at Merrimac while they are helping to reduce the number of bottles that would have gone to the landfill.
They are also thinking with the end in mind because many of the students at Merrimac that they help need money for things like field trips, and two families suffered from house fires.
