Greenwich GCS has a recycling program
called Students To Oppose Pollution (S.T.O.P.). We have boxes in
every classroom from grades 7-12 in which the students and
teachers put their used paper. Every Wednesday the science
teacher and students in grades 7-8 help her pick up the paper
from the classrooms, bring it to the science room, and sort it.
They take the paper and separate it into different piles. Once
the students sort them they put it in a teacher’s car and she
brings it to a recycling center. After participating in S.T.O.P.
our local recycling program at Greenwich Central School (GCS), I
expected most of the recycled paper products to be lined paper
and notebooks; however I found that the recycled paper product
range is wide and varying. S.T.O.P had a big affect in our
school, so we are now looking at other schools to see whether or
not they recycle.
