08/15/2009 20:22 Filed in:
recycle | AlishiaAs a fundraiser and as a way to provide people with new ways o be environmentally friendly, the Green Keene Teens have been selling Greenciles. Greenciles are pencils made from recycled newspaper. Since the pencils are made of recycled newpaper the shavings can be put into the recycling bin to be recycled! Anyway, my dad works at Hamshaws, which is a local lumber store. I’m happy to announce that Hamshaws has recently become an outlet for the sale of the Greenciles. This is exciting because now more people can use Greenciles.
Towards the end of school last year, I started to ask if any of my teachers would want to buy Greenciles to use in the classroom. To my surprise, not many teachers wanted to. One day I asked my English teacher if he wanted to buy some Greenciles. He told me that it would be great to use the greenciles in school, but, unfortunately he declined to buy any himself. Instead of just turning me away he gave me advice. He thought it would be a good idea if I asked the school board if it was possible to put the Greenciles in the school budget. I talked with the administration, and after some consideration, they decided that Greenciles couldn’t be used, but a similar pencil by Papermate was put on the list.
Tags: fundraising, School
07/07/2009 09:49 Filed in:
reduce | reuse | recycle | LucyFinally school is out! Summer is here! Woot, woot! Last week I had the urge to clean all of my binders and folders. I had saved all of my work throughout the year (just in case), and complied a huge pile of paper in the corner of my room. As I dumped the rest of my papers on the pile I realized I could make a blog out of how much paper we get and use in school.
The sad part of it is, about half of the paper I got I didn’t even look at after it got passed around the room in school because it didn’t really help me learn or study. But of course I recycled everything I could. The folders and the binders that are trashed of still sitting in my room, maybe I’ll try to doctor them up for more use…?
For next year I’m going to try to get school supplies that are recycled or will be able to be recycled after use (binders). Here is a site to check out some of the products out there, that was just the first site that came up when I googled.
Tags: School
