It's time to Recycle!!

Thanks to Mr. Magay, we are on the road to being a more responsible community as we aim to reduce our waste by 50% or more through an aggressive recycling program. In just four weeks, Mr. Magay has worked with Waste Management to put in place a new program and restructure our contract.

Just to give you a sense of the scope of our garbage production, we have been having 35 yards of waste hauled out of here each week. That amount is basically the equivalent of more than two tractor trailer loads and has been costing the school more than $25k per year in addition to the negative environmental impact. Our goal is to slash that amount through the recovery of all cardboard and a new "single stream program" available through Waste Management.

Through the "single stream program", all recyclable plastic, paper and aluminum can be bagged together in clear bags in a single receptacle, deposited in a single dumpster, and it will then be sorted by Waste Management at a new facility. This ability to consolidate recyclables rather than having three to four bins should make it much easier for all and allow us to quickly reduce the amount going to landfills.

So thanks to Mr. Magay for moving us forward on this, and thanks to the Community Service crew (picture above by Mr. Blair) for their help with launch yesterday.