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British food challenge really takes the biscuit
Star94 & Georgia United Credit Union Name Audrey Hughes of Clarke County as “Teachers Make a Difference” Grand Prize Winner & Heather MacKenzie Thompson of Henry County as Star Choice Winner
Club hopes to "Terracycle" Bodley out of litter
The G. Ray Bodley High School Environmental Club is about to undertake yet another world saving task, upcycling. Upcyling was an idea that was brought to the club by sophomore Cayla Weaver. The concept is an offshoot of the old saying, "one man's trash is another man's treasure."
The club will work with the company Terracycle to take Bodley's trash such as candy wrappers, juice boxes, and chip bags and make it into something useable like bags, benches, notebooks, and pencil cases. The best part of this arrangement, besides the obvious beneficial impacts to the environment, is that a portion of the profits earned from the resulting goods goes to a non-profit charity or school of the organizers choice.
The donations will be collected by the club and packaged and shipped back to the company to be upcycled into new goods. The products are divided into "brigades" based on their type. The brigades range from the obvious chip bags to the unexpected designer handbag brigade. All of the products created by the upcycled goods can be purchased on the TerraCycle website where customers can literally purchase a notebook made out of recycled chip bags for only 8.99 to take math notes in. And who knows, maybe that good karma will come in handy when working on homework and quizzes; it certainly can't hurt.Riverkeeper Sweep Day of Service for the Hudson River
Go Green! Greenpoint! to Return This Weekend
Compass School Wins Green Ribbon
The Compass School in Kingston has been named a 2013 Green Ribbon school by the U.S. Department of Education for its environmental efforts.
Sustainability practices include packing no-waste lunches, regular silverware, and reusable water bottles. Documents are printed on both sides of paper and scrap paper is used for math and art, and shredded for use as bedding in worm compost bins and the chicken coop. Students constructed a bin for Compass families to use for recycling supermarket plastic bags, and another bin is used to collect and send recyclable materials to Terracycle. In art and music students make instruments and sculptures from natural and recycled materials. According to parents, this concern for good sustainability practices has carried over into home practices.