A Pinecrest High School recycling club is striving to make Moore County a little greener. Aayushi Patel, a school senior and president of the Student Environmental Association, said her group has recently initiated a pair of projects that involve both her school and the international community. "Our biggest project at this time is the TerraCycle company's chip bag recycling competition, which is being held at Pinecrest for teachers and students to participate together to collect the highest amount of used chip bags," she said. "The TerraCycle company will then collect the bags for recycling." Patel said that 21 third-period classes will participate, with the winning class awarded a pizza party by Mellow Mushroom. Patel said the group collected 21,646 chip bags during the semester. "Our club mission is to spread awareness for recycling chip bags so that we have less trash occupying landfills," she said. "To include the Sandhills community into our recycling initiative, we have partnered with the Subway restaurants at Pinecrest Plaza and at Town and Country Shopping Center to put a recycling bin at their stores for Frito-Lay chip bags."