A Self-sufficient Recycling Program

When Robbie Makely and her gifted and talented students chose recycling as their issue, they had no idea that what began as the project of one small group would quickly turn in to the effort of the whole school. The small group headed by Robbie surveyed their school and community and immediately identified the conspicuous lack of recycling capabilities in their classroom. Their issue identified, the students gave themselves a name worthy of their formidable task, the Six Sandoval Super Recycling Students!
The Six immediately began researching recycling in general and what it would take to bring it to their school. From the kinds of materials that would be feasible to recycle to the cost of putting bins in each room, the students gathered all relevant information. It was a program that literally needed to be started from scratch!
After finishing their research, the students devised their action plan. First, they surveyed the faculty in order to gauge how many bins and of what size they need. Next, they ordered the appropriate number of bins and designed a short presentation to educate the other students about what they could and could not recycle. Finally, the group had to create a system for gathering and emptying the recycling bins into the big dumpster. They settled on dividing the school into zones which each student would be responsible for clearing. In just a short time the Six Sandoval Super Recycling Students had researched and designed a self-sufficient recycling program at their school that would continue to reduce waste at their school for years to come!