Terracycling at the courthouse

This week I made a terracycle box to put at the courthouse. You can put anything in this box that is terracycleable such as chip bags, drink pouches, cookie wrappers, and many other things. I also went to the couthouse and presented to the Extension office about terracycling and planet green. Mr. Davidson was really impressed with the actions that the greenteam here at EJSHS are taking. Mr. Davidson also told me that he would help us contiune recycling and terracycling. But there are many different boxs all around the town at different businesses and you can find any of them and drop off your terracyclable goods.

Product packaging

My packaging product I chose was a monopoly game. I bought one of these games a while back and when I started opening it i realized that it had way to much wrapping on it. Ever little single thing was wrapped individually. Each instruction book was wrapped, the game board was wrapped, the money was wrapped by it self, the game pieces were wrapped by it self, and the box was wrapped in plastic as well. Now once you think of all the games that are made in the world, and everywhere there is one, that is a lot of plastic being used. Plus all of the other games in the world that have the same or even more of the same wrapping on them. Some of the game aren't never used so we just waste it.

If i were in charge of making games for people, i would use a way better solution for wrapping them. Everything doesn't need to be separated and wrapped individually. I would put all of the small things in one thing plastic bag that was air sealed so it would not damage the items. I would than wrap the game boards along with the instructions in one air tight bag. Then once the items were in the box you still have to wrap the outside the same cause if not then people can steal them easily. I would also start a program that every unused game or plastic product would go into the wrapping of the games so they do not go to waste. Also so we don't have to make new plastic to wrap the games in.

product pakaging, box, terracycle at courthouse

I created a box displaying for people to see that you can recycle old inkjet cartridges and old cell phones. My box is displayed at the local Alco here in Eureka, and has only collected a few items, but is doing well! The product packaging I chose to pick on was chip bags, and it made since because they use a lot of packaging. There is no need to use as much packaging as Doritos and Frito Lay does, its not very smart in my opinion. Or even in beef jerky packaging its similar to chips but, they are just as bad at a lot of packaging or even worse. I believe they are ripping people off by making it look like they have a lot of product but actually with not very much product. The only product that is equal to the packaging is candy bars. They do an excellent job at making them right unlike a bunch of other companies. But other than candy bars it doesnt seem like very many companies do a good job at trying to help the environment. They should make all of their rappers or bags where they can dissolve into the ground while in the landfill and help the environment. Now terracycling in the courthouse will help the landfill just like we have here in the high school. They seem to be very supportive of our ideas and want to help us, especially Ashly Bogle. She has helped the green team soooo much with getting our word out about terracycling and recycling.

Why pay more ?

This last week the green team has been working hard! The green team was assigned three projects that had to be competed by the end of the week. The projects were the Planet Green drop boxes, Product packaging, and Green Business flyers.

The project that I will tell you about is Product packaging. On this project you had to pick an over packaged product. The product I choose was mail order. Did you know that you might not just be paying for the name on the box but the packaging inside as well?

When I was thinking about what product I wanted to uses, I remembered that buying some thing over the internet or through the mail that came in over packaged. My idea is to place the item in a box big enough to have some shipping material and the item. Without having to hunt for the item you bought in a sea of shipping material.

All around town!

This week the Green Team members had been working on many different projects like, “Planet Green” boxes product packaging and green business advertisement flyers. Out of these projects, I picked the planet Green fundraiser to discuss. Our goal was to design a collection box and create an informational display that goes out into are community to collect inkjet cartridges and old cell phones. The Fundraiser has two parts we get money from what we collect and send in, we get 15% from ink that you supporters purchase from the website below, they can track the progress of the fundraiser and buy remanufactured inkjet cartridges for their printers. The Green Team has been busy raising money to continue our “green projects” and ultimately build a sustainable greenhouse. Please visit any of he following locations to drop off your items:

Loretta’s

Emprise Bank

Flint Hills Feed

Secured Title

G&W

GWCO courthouse

GWCO Hospital

Alco

Library

New Beginnings

Alan’s Carpet & Flooring

www.planetgreenrecycle.com/ejshsgreenteam

Jeans don't just keep your legs warm!!

Levi Strauss is making big strides to becoming an eco-friendly company. It has started many projects to reduce the amount of clothing waste going into the landfills and the amount of unneccicary packaging being used. Levi Strauss was a 24 year old German immigrant who left the big city of NewYork for San Francisco. He took a small supply of dry goods with the intention of opening a branch of his brother's NewYork dry goods business. On May 20, 1873 they recieved U.S. patent NO. 139, 121. This date is now considered the official birthday of "blue jeans".

Levi Strauss is launching a $100,000 denim insulation fund which will provide grants to non-profit organizations who are currently undergoing construction projects. The fund will offset the cost difference of using recycled denim insulation instead of conventional insulation. The cost of the recycled denim insulation was easily three times the price of fiberglass.

Levi Strauss also has another project in place called "Care tag for our Planet" in cooperation with Goodwill. The tage on their products not only instructs consumers on how to clean their clothes will less environmental impact, it also encourages them to donate used jeans to Goodwill rather than throwing them out. According to Goodwill, about 23.8 billion pounds of clothing end up in U.S. landfills each year.

The company also has started some efforts to reduce the amount of packaging they use. They are reducing the number of "hangtags" on each garment from an average of two to three. They are also beginning to print size and care information directly onto garments. Here's a quote from the Levi Strauss company about reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the environment. "Through participation in the Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP), we have joined other global companies in calling for leadership and support from the U.S. administration and Congress to develop energy and climate legislation that promotes energy efficiency, encourages energy and climate innovation, and reduces overall greenhouse gas emissions".

This is great! Levi Strauss is really using their resources to make better decisions about what their company's doing to the environment. They have many more cool initiatives in place, you should check their website out at http://www.levistrauss.com/.

Du Pont And The Green Racing Team

Du Pont is a company that advances itself through the engineering of new products to help keep out environment healthy. Du Pont was founded in 1802 as a gunpowder maker. When Du Pont first began, they saw the “messiness” of manufacturing of many products, as Du Pont Grew, other companies grew in a “traditional way” as Du Pont grew in a “greener” way.  As the years progressed as well as the company advanced they began to set their sights on the broad term of manufacturing and engineering in a green way. Du Pont successfully covers many areas that we live in from plastics to fuel efficiency to water usage reduction. Water reduction is a major problem in the world as of the population of the planet is always growing. Plastics are another major health issue throughout the planet, plastics are being manufactured all around the world, but many cannot be recycled and end up in landfills and in the ocean, harming the environment the stay in and affect the health and beauty of the planet.  Du Pont is finding new areas of improvement to our environment everyday. Du Pont advertises in many ways, but NASCARS Jeff Gordon really advertises in a mild but know manner. Setting their sites on new goals everyday as the world advances, soon the world will be a healthier place to live in with the cooperation and advancements of other Green companies. As Du Pont and other green companies advances so will the health of our environment.

projects, projects every where but not a time to waste

The green team is in over it's head this week with projects. First, we have our drop boxes for our Planet Green fundraiser. These will be located at Eurekan businesses all over town. Mine will be at Emprise bank. Our second project is a way to reduce waste from products, like why do they need so many boxes for small video games? If we reduce the waste from the company, then we have to throw out less and landfills would not as often. This could also make it so we would have less garbage, the garbage trucks would be used less, and any gas that would have put more CO2 into the air. That was just a possibility if this was to go large scale. Our third project is using our class to tell everyone who the companies are, that are making reduction of their waste. This was our final project, thank you for finishing it for me.

Planet Green Fundraiser

Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? If you have an old cell phone that is no more use than a paper weight, think Planet Green.

How about those ink cartridges that cost a bundle and you have no way of disposing them safely after they run out? Think Planet Green.

Planet Green is a company that is taking out the middle man when it comes to recycling and buying recycled products. The Green Team has joined forces in a fund raising effort to clean up, stock up, and pay out!

Take a look at the locations below where you can drop off your used ink cartridges and old cell phones and support the Green Team in its collection efforts. For every item we send in, we will receive market prices for the recyclable materials. For every recycled ink cartridge you purchase from the site, we receive 15%!

Please help us in our collection efforts! You can find drop boxes at the following local businesses:

Flint Hills Feed

GW County Courthouse
GW County Hospital
Kansas Secured Title Co.
Loretta's Flowers & Candles
G&W Foods
Alan's Carpet & Flooring
Eureka Library
Alco Discount Store
New Beginnings
Emprise Bank

will not believe

In my house we use 875.42 liters of water every day. 875.42 liters of water, that is unbelievable. That is with every one only taking 6 min showers with 4 showers a day and again this is just one days worth of water. Add that up that is a lot of water in one week let alone one month just for one house. So here are some thangs i am going to do to help cut doun on my part and save water by not letting the water run wall brushing your teeth. All so dont let the water run in the shower if you are not in it. Put more clothes in the washer so you are trying to cut back on water us. If we try to save water now we will have it later for our kids to use... GO GREEN...

Water Audit

My household used same where around 1,635 liters of water over the weekend. One way I can save on water is to ask my parent not to do laundry every day. Another way I can save on water is to take less time in the shower. The last way I can save on water is to find another way to wash the dishes.

This weekend i did a water audit on how much water my family uses per day. We use around 528 liters per day. One way we could cut down on the water useige is to not take as long as a shower

Water usage

In my house the water use in a day is 1580 liters a day. I am going to try to reduce it by asking my parents if they can get a low-volume model shower head. Tell my family when they are brushing their teeth to turn off the faucets. Ask my parents to by a water purifier for drinking water.

the water audit

Over the weekend I conducted a water audit to see how much water my family used per day I was shocked when I found out that we used 564 liters per day I actually thought it would be more. I think that the way to cut down my water usage would be to take a shorter shower. Make it were I have to do laundry only once a week. I should try and not leave the water running while I am brushing my teeth.

Water Usage

I found out about how much water is used at my house per day. The toilet, it's not fancy or brand new or anything. It's a high volume model, about 26 liters per flush. It's flushed about 4 times a day. That's 104 liters per day. The shower, it's usually at an average of 2 liters per minute. With 7 minute showers and 2 showers a day, it all adds up to 28 liters per day. The faucet, I usually run it at about 1 liter per minute. I take about 2 minutes brushing my teeth and 3 minutes for drinking water. That is 5 minutes a day. At 1 liter per minute that's 5 liters a day. The dishwasher, about 2 loads a week and 60 liters a load goes up to 120 liters a week. Which is about 16.8 liters a day. The clothes washer, about 5 loads a week and 144 liters a load. That end's up being 720 liters a week. That's about 102.24 liters a day. All of this water usage ends up being a total of 238.54 liters a day.

Mixin' It Up!

Recently, the Environmental Science II class received a mechanical mixer through a generous donation from Dave Harris of Erie. This mechanical mixer will aid in the planned anaerobic decomposition of the High School's protein waste. What this means is that from now on, EJSHS will not throw away any food waste!!

This is very exciting as it adds an additional dimension to our goal of solid waste reduction in the district. The machine will mix the food waste with various sources of nitrogen (manure, grass) and carbon (paper). This mixture will in turn be spread into windrows to process.

The windrows will be monitored to make sure high temperatures are present for sufficient breakdown of the protein material. At the end of the process period (approx. 90 days), we will have a large amount of high-nutrient fertilizer!

This fertilizer is going to be bagged up in used feed bags, and thanks to Ranch Aid Inc., sewn shut for distribution!

Go Green Team!

Westar Energy Savings

On Thursday the 30Th we had a speaker from the West star energy efficiency department came to visit us. She had a lot to explain to us and how we need to start now by changing our ways. She said that if we start by shutting off our lights when we left our houses and unplugged our phone chargers it would save our family a lot of money. She also said that the L.C.D. flat screen T.V.'s cost us a lot also because they always use energy even when they are shut off because they still use energy. That is the one most thing that uses the most energy the second thing that uses the most energy is the electric water heater because they are always running also.

Westar Visit to greenteam

Yesterday a representive from Westar Energy named Tammie came to talk to the Greenteam about saving electricity. She showed us different bulbs and how much each used, one bulb only used 3 watts of electricity while a different one used 150 watts. We also learned that south east and central Kansas uses 25,000 lbs of coal each day. The coal we use comes all the way from Wyoming everyday, twice a day. Kansas only buys the good grade coal and stores some of it in its stock piles out in the yard. When the coal comes in it takes 6 hours for it to be dumped, one car at a time is flipped over and moved to the next car to repeat the process. The electricity that we use each day is outragious, a LCD TV that is not even on uses about as much as it uses turned of for 4 hours as when its not turned of for 20 hours. Even phone chargers that aren't even in use use a lot of electricity, and if we don't slow down our use of electricity Westar will have to build another power plant and raise our bills, again.

We recently had an encounter with a representative from Westar, which enlightened us on ways in which we can save energy in our homes.There were a multitude of different ways in which you could save energy in any home no matter the conditions. For one you can unplug appliances that you are not using. Any appliances that are left unplugged can suck up electricity to make for an expensive electric bill. There is also the method of turning of lights in rooms not being used. As simple as that sounds it tends to be a bad habit of many people and leaving lights on in any room not being used not only wastes electricity, it also deters the life of the bulb causing you to have to reach into your wallet even farther and pay for the expense of new light bulbs. When it comes to buying new lights for your home you have a large variety of choices rather than the classic tungsten bulb. You can invest in the new popular energy saver fluorescent bulbs or the longer lasting L.E.D. lights.

Westar Energy Electricity Visit

Recently we had someone from our local Westar Energy outfit come and visit.. She explained to us where there energy comes from and how we can reduce energy. But why would we want to reduce electricity use on Westar? Because it would reduce the amount of other energy sources they use, they care for the environment too.  She showed us some ways to reduce our energy and electricity by using different types of light bulbs, Fluorescent light bulbs are the common household light bulb. If we converted to l.e.d. light bulbs it would reduce energy watts being used and heat coming off the bulbs. L.E.D. bulbs may cost more and may still be in experimentation but soon in the coming months they will advance in they way they work and the light they put out. Here's a quick fact, the current fluorescent light bulbs put out enough heat to cook meals, they heat at up to 250 degrees F.  For anyone wanting to reduce cost of utilities bills each month, you can always replace a fluorescent bulb with a L.E.D. bulb and cut down on your energy bill, and everyone likes lower bills for more entertainment. Other options to save money are unplugging your TV and heating and cooling systems, also there is having monitoring systems for electricity  usage each day and monitor which are is being used the most with least outcome.

Energy Saver

Yesterday we had a speaker come to our school to teach us about conserving energy in our homes. She worked at Westar Energy so it was odd to me that she would want us to conserve energy instead of using more energy but she gave us some pretty good tips on how to not use as much energy in our homes. The biggest energy monster in homes is flat screen tvs. The second biggest energy monster would probably be the refrigerator. She told us that the best way to make sure the tv doesn't use as much energy is to simply unplug it while your not using it. You can also unplug everything else in your house while your not using it to conserve energy. We all have cell phones and we all use cell phone chargers to charge our phones, but none realizes that by leaving your cell phone charger plugged in the wall that your actually using energy for nothing. She encouraged us to find ways to conserve energy in our homes and I plan on taking her advice to unplug my cell phone charger from the wall every morning before I leave for school since im not even going to be using it. I also want to encourage my mom to unplug our huge flat screen when we're not using it to save more energy that's being waisted. We've already started coserving energy in our home by making sure all of the lights are off in our room before we go to school, my mom threatened us by saying if she found our lights on while we were at school she'd take all of our light bulbs out so we'd have to live in the dark. I think this methods really working because me and my sister never leave our lights on anymore when we're not in our room. I think the tips she gave us will really help my family in conserving energy and educating the public about our tips.

Weststar teaching us how to save energy

A member of Weststar energy came to talk to the Green Team about how energy saving can help you at home. One of the way you can save energy is by unplugging the TV before you leave for school. Why do this it doesn't use energy off, right? Wrong, anything that is plugged in is using energy, even off. Another way is use LED bulbs. How will that save energy? It last for 3o,ooo hours and only uses 3 watts. This is less than a blender uses. Why do we need to save energy? To cut the need for coal fired plants, the ones that give off green house gases. What about the renewable energy sources? Wind energy is the only practice that they can use as a supply. Why don't we build more wind farms? It is cheaper to use coal and natural gas, and the energy need to do that is more than the output. So if you want to save money just unplug the....

caseys household water audit

In oceanography, the class did a water audit to figure out how much water we use in one day. my family used 624 liters per day testing the toilet, shower, faucet, dishwasher, and clothes washer. here are three ways I can reduce that amount of water. Turn the water off when I brush my teeth. Put a full laundry load in the washer. Don't turn the faucet on full blast. Those are my three ways I can reduce the amount of water in my household.

One Class, Two very cool donations!

During the first 9 weeks, Mrs. Alonso's third grade class has been busy with math, reading, science, and Terracycling? That's right! It all started with a simple birthday party that served Capri Sun juice drinks. 3rd grader Quinton Phelan asked his teacher if he could collect the drink pouches to Terracycle. Mrs. Alonso and her class agreed and pitched in, not once, but twice already!

The EJSHS Green Team is a member of the Terracycle Juice Pouch Brigade which donates $.02 to the school for every pouch turned in. The class' donation got the Green Team closer to its goal of 500 pouches.

To show their appreciation, the Green Team presented the class with Terracycle bag, made completely out of 'upcycled' Capri Sun juice pouches. That way, when they collect in the future, they can store the pouches in the bag made out of pouches!!

Way to go guys!

Homely Water Audit

I have found that my house hold has been using and wasting at the most 540.9 Liters-a-Day. They were measured in sections that included Baths, Toilets, Showers, Faucets, Dishwashers, and Clothes washers. I have recorded all of the numbers from each section. These are the numbers: Bath- 0 L.; Toilet- 135 L.; Shower- 228 L.; Faucet- 15 L.; Dishwasher- 60 L.; Clothes Washer- 102.9 L.; Total Liters- 540.9. The ways I plan to reduce these numbers are to put a timer in to the shower, not over using water to hydrate my animals, and not using an entire cup of water when I only want 1/4 of the cup.

Long week

This week we have worked on are proposal to move Terracycling over to the other school. We have presented to Mrs. Bogle, the director of Greenwood County Economic Development, she is working on getting a grant for are Green Team. This Friday another guy we have presented to is bring us a tumbler, we get out for 2nd lunch and find out how this tumbler is going to work, and what other equipment we are going to need so we can get this project on the road, so we cant less trash going in to the trash cans.. and land fills!!!!!

What I learned and going to learn

I would like to learn more on how to clean up the Environment. Cleaning out the worm bins was very exciting to do. Learning how worms can help the Environment is cool. Learning about how a atom works is very cool.

The Green Team and Me

The reasons I would like to be part of the green team are to learn more about where all of the garbage goes when we throw it out, how to reduce the amount of recyclable items throw away, and how to control what goes in which trashcan. I would enjoy figuring out how long it takes to decompose. I want to find out where the stuff we recycle goes.

Playing with animals

I would like to get out of this class is to play with small animals. Examples like worms or frogs or other small critters. Another thing i would like to do is dissecting frogs. Or making chemicals that catch on fire.

A Shark Start

There are many kinds of sharks in the world. But one thing a lot of people don't know about sharks is that humans kill much more sharks each year then sharks do people. Also even though people think of sharks as really big, most shark species average less than 39 inches in length. One kind of Shark that is not one of those smaller ones is the Blue Shark. They are opportunistic feeders and will eat almost anything. But they usually feed on squid. They are very fast sharks, one of the fastest. But it is not the fastest of the sharks. The fastest is the Short-Fin Mako Shark. Blue Sharks are classified as low risk/ near endangered. They have five gill slits. Blue Sharks usually get to around 12.5 ft (3.8m) in length. They are willing to travel long distances for food.

Blue Shark

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Garbage doesn't always end up in the dump. One of the things that a river cant stop is trash flowing down the river. The largest landfill isn't even on land. The great Pacific garbage patch is in the middle of the Pacific. It is two times the size of Texas. The reason all of the trash forms right there is because it is where three currents intersect and pushes the trash into the same spot. There is no one else to blame for this dump then humans. If you were to take a giant net out there and scoop a lot of trash up.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Thank You again BP!

The image of oil gushing from a broken well in the Gulf of Mexico was destroyed when a well cap was put on top of the well a month and a half ago. Engineers weren't expecting to see that image again. Thursday, when they planned to remove the cap as a beginning to raise the massive piece of equipment in the Gulf that failed to prevent the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. But the government wasn't offering a guarantee that no oil would leak. Plans were being made for oil collecting ships to be standing by in case of a problem. With the cap and failed leak preventer removed temporarily until another leak preventer can be put in, a lot will be balanced on the strength of a plug that was created when mud and cement were pumped down into the well. Essentially, the pressure pushed downward served to cancel the pressure coming up. But Rice University engineer professor George Hirasaki quoted "... there is still uncertainty about whether the cement settled everywhere it needed to in order to keep oil and gas from finding its way up. Just because it didn't flow when they tested it doesn't mean the cement displaced all of the oil and gas, " Hirasaki said "that's why many people have felt that finishing the relief well was the ultimate solution to the crisis." He was involved in the oil containment effort in the Bay of Marchland field off Louisiana after a well burned in the early 1970's. The government still plans on ordering BPPLC to do the so-called bottom kill operation. But it believes the wisest course is to put on a new leak preventer first to deal with any pressure that is caused when the relief well intersects the broken well.

-Robert Obourn

The Green Team Success

I planned on taking this to help with becoming a game warden. So far this has been a very fun, entertaining and informative class. I see a potential to help with knowledge to move farther with a my future career. I have donated a 60-80 pound Turn-able mixer. I does need some work, but after the Ag class gets it fixed,it will benefit us very much with our protein loss at lunch. This will eliminate most of our protein losses, and benefit us very well. I have found out many things to help our ennviroment and to help the whole planet earth. There is a great future in this class, and I hope you considering joining Eviro Science next year.

New Greenteamers

We have many plans that the Green Teams this year. At first I didn't like being on the green team. However now that I'm getting the hang of how the green team work. The place I see my self on the green team is a worker.

Being a member of the Greenteam means that I'm helping save money for the school and sometimes myself. I try to attack the areas of money saving, because it seems to interest me the most. I am also interested in the progress of our Dream Green House. The plans for this Green House are going to be very energy sufficient and when we do need to use energy it will be very minimal. Another area were trying to succeed in is Terracycling and Recycling, we save 80 lbs per day and 400 lbs per week on average. With all of our help we can save thousands of pounds going into the land fill.

Me

The beginning of the year has brought a new class with some great people. Each of them bring something different to the table, but each of us will tell you in time. I, Jesse James Fisher, has brought the idea of what if. How can I help is thinking of how I improve another person's idea. I can be shot down and be ok with it. My job is still unknown beyond What If...

Lets get stuff done

I am Wyatt Kelly and I came into this class thinking that it would be kind of boring but now I have changed my whole idea about this class. This year we are talking about doing several different things and I think that they are all good ideas. The idea I like the most is that we go around after Christmas and collect the Christmas trees that people have used and mulch them and donate the mulch to the local greenhouse and to local farmers that need it. The other one that I like is the one that we go around when school is over and clean out the kid's locker are recycle the paper and pencils and all the other stuff that kids just throw in there lockers.

EJSHS Greenteam

I'm very excited about being a part of the Green Team this year. I have learned some about what the Green Team does and I am more then happy to contribute my idea's and help to the school. I think that our goals are very manageable and they will help us get out information about recycling, terracycling, composting, and conserving energy. I think that my favorite project this year will be expanding everything we do here at the high school to the elementary school. The elementary school doesn't even have simple recycling. It would help our district save money and just help get the word out about what we're doing here at school. Our community isn't really informed about what we're doing at school and I think they should be educated about everything so they can also do what we're doing. I think it would really help our community out.

Me about the "green team"

I wasn't that interested when I first was in this class. Through out the pasted two weeks I have learned a lot about this class and have become very interested in the "Green Team". I hope we can get a lot projects started and hopefully Finish a couple, in the next couple years I hope we get a lot of interest in this Science program, and collect trash through out the year that's not going to the land field.

EJSHS GreenTeam

At the beginning of the year, I only took this class because I thought it was just going to be an easy A. Which it kind of is, but it also requires you to be involved and use your hands as much as your brain, and I learn a lot better when I am doing hand s on things. As these past couple of weeks have went by I have became more and more excited about being apart of the Green Team and making a difference. I was pretty excited about getting as t-shirt also! but I haven't quite convinced Mrs. hart. Our goals go as far as what we can do right now and what people in the near future can do to keep our goals growing. I think if we apply our 5 initiatives to every project we do, we could go far.

What? Why? And How?

The primary role I play in the EJSHS greenteam is to provide ideas and support to the teams primary goals. Not only provide ideas, but also improve on the ideas of others if any is needed. All brainstorming, self-correction, and insightful discussions allow us to develop more economical practices along with those practices in which deter our amount of waste produced in our school and homes. The entire point is to develop ideas that are realistic and practical considering we are working on a small scale on a world-wide problem. Also although we cant change the worlds practices in a single day or even by the end of this year, we can influence the surrounding community to begin to change their waste practices and develop a more environmentally conscious mindset. When all is said and done the hopes that someone somewhere has changed the way the choose to dispose of their waste material has benefited the environment and the surrounding community along with the hopes that that same person is willing to influence friends, family, and acquaintances to do the same. There is a theory that everyone is related in the world through six people that you know and six people that each one of those people know, so realistically we are trying an environmental version of the movie "Pay it forward".

Green Team- Season 2

The school year is well underway and the same goes for the green team. This year's members are: Tayler Smith, Taylor Moore, Madison Strate, Wyatt Kelly, Tanner Frakes, Jesse Fisher, Angel Fisher, Shelby McMullen, Jerry Alexander, and Wayne Moots.

In addition to learning about solid waste management, we have set in motion plans for Terracycle expansion to the elementary school, additional composting of food waste with the help of a compost tumbler, and the acquisition of a mechanical mixer that will help us compost our proteins.

If you would like to become a member of the greenteam, help with fundraisers and grants, or just simply learn more about our projects, stay tuned to this website or contact us ejshsgreenteam@yahoo.com.

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