‘Reduce, reuse and recycle’ at Goshen Intermediate School
Teegan Kennedy
GOSHEN - Goshen Intermediate School students are reducing, reusing and recycling thanks largely in part to the efforts of their fourth grade teacher.
In previous years, teacher Teegan Kennedy began a recycling project with her students. This year, she plans to expand those recycling efforts to the cafeteria. She recently gave a presentation where she talked with students about the importance of recycling the everyday items and containers they use during lunchtime, reminded them that: each person creates five pounds of garbage per day; 25 million plastic bottles are thrown away every hour; glass bottles take 4,000 years to decompose; and the energy saved from recycling an aluminum can equals one-half gallon of gasoline.
Kennedy mentioned popular lunch items such as applesauce containers, aluminum juice cans, plastic water bottles, aluminum foil, plastic food trays and containers, and milk cartons, which can easily be recycled everyday in the designated bins in the cafeteria.
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