Westbrook-Walnut Grove (WWG) Earth YES! class has been working on many projects throughout the semester. Their current project has them out in the communities collecting old cellphones for recycling with the intention that these cellphones will stay out of our landfills and even benefit our environment! Both the school and greater community are involved in their campaign. The students have put up
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An Hour for Our Earth in Pine Island
While gathering over pizza they won through their Winter Workshop survey responses, the Pine Island High School YES! Team/Environmental Club discussed the next step for their team. Megan Schimek, teacher and YES! coach, said the meeting had "a great turnout and [was] actually pretty productive!" What did they decide? Pine Island will be participating in Earth Hour, March 31st, by hosting a
YES! Collects Over One Tonne of Holiday Lights
The final count is in! Over 2,000 pounds collected by YES! teams. As compared to last year's haul of 1,972.6 pounds, this year's teams collected 2,449.9 pounds of Holiday Lights as a part of the now annual "Recycle Your Holidays" campaign. Hosted by the Recycling Association of Minnesota, Recycle Your Holidays is a statewide initiative to recycle old holiday lights properly. As a part of the
Restructuring Northfield’s Recycling
The Northfield YES! Team/Transition Youth group, a group of high school students from Northfield High School and ARTech, has been working to build several recycling bin prototypes. Once they have been approved, these recycling bins will be permanently installed in the downtown Northfield area and surrounding parks. Their goal is to design and build 16 recycling bins for downtown
10 feet to Recycling
Next time you're at your school's basketball game, or any sporting event - take note of the garbage can locations as compared to the recycling bins. Typically, I am happy when I see a recycling container anywhere - however, you may find that that just having the bins may not be enough to encourage recycling of those plastic pop bottles. At the end of a recent basketball tournament I attended I
Litchfield Lights fill car
While you could claim its a small car, this is the SECOND collection of lights this season from the Litchfield YES! team. Way to go Litchfield! Just think - all those lights are NOT going to a landfill this season.
