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Westminster Recycles CCC3 Lauren Wray, Gia Garrett, Melissa Klein, Alexis Kirton, Meron Woldetensae The Westminster Schools 1424 West Paces Ferry Road, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30327 404-355-8673 High School

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Page 1: Westminster Recycles CCC3 Lauren Wray, Gia Garrett, Melissa Klein, Alexis Kirton, Meron Woldetensae The Westminster Schools 1424 West Paces Ferry Road,

Westminster Recycles CCC3

Lauren Wray, Gia Garrett, Melissa Klein, Alexis Kirton, Meron Woldetensae The Westminster Schools1424 West Paces Ferry Road, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30327 404-355-8673High School

Page 2: Westminster Recycles CCC3 Lauren Wray, Gia Garrett, Melissa Klein, Alexis Kirton, Meron Woldetensae The Westminster Schools 1424 West Paces Ferry Road,

For the Land Challenge, the Campus Conservation Corps(CCC) addressed the environmental issue of recycling. Because recycling is such a crucial topic for our generation and those to come, our team decided to focus not only on recycling, but to take it up a level and include reducing, reusing, and various other methods of recycling. The three R’s are some of the simplest and effective ways of saving and preserving our earth. Recycling reduces water pollution, saves energy, creates jobs, reduces global warming, saves trees, and so much more. The global environment clearly needs protection and care and by making changes in our local community, we become one step closer to making changes in the world. After all, the earth has been alive for billions of years and it deserves a billion more. To learn more about why we think recycling is important view our post “Top Ten Reasons to Recycle” on our blog http://westminsterrecycles.blogspot.com/.

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“In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught.”

- Baba Dioum Our team strives to educate and promote the reducing, reusing,

and recycling of our resources around campus and in our communities. In order to do so, we aim to:

Raise awareness and educate those about the three R’s on and off campus

Significantly increase the amount of materials recycled in the 2007-2008 school year to that of last year

To expand the number of recycling programs and increase their effectiveness

Increase the accessibility of recycling bins on the Westminster campus to facilitate the efforts we will make encouraging people to recycle

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Why don’t people recycle? We believe there are four main reasons:

1. They’re too lazy 2. They forget 3. They don’t care 4. They are uninformed

With the intention of eliminating these excuses, we recommend everyone “Go A.P.E. for Recycling”. Our Action Plan is as follows:

 A: Awareness. Spread the word! By increasing people’s knowledge about the benefits of the three R’s, it will encourage them to take action.

P: Participation: Get people involved! Individually, as a family, as a community, as a nation, and as a world. By participating, you can make an impact on the earth!

E: Elimination: Eliminate excuses! Eliminate ignorant attitudes! Eliminate the threats to our planet that recycling can help resolve!

Go Ape for

recycling!

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BATTERY RECYCLING Westminster students are continually replacing

their calculator batteries. Placing collection boxes for used batteries in the math and science rooms throughout the Jr. High and High School is an easy, convenient disposal location. FLYERS

Spread educational flyers around campus, informing others about the importance of recycling.

Every time a student accesses their school account, a pop-up pops up saying “Please Recycle, Conserve Paper, Print only what you need.”

Each day in the morning announcements, we have a ‘fun fact’ encouraging recycling and other environmentally friendly methods.T-SHIRTS

We sold t-shirts to raise awareness of the CCC and its mission and to raise money for Trees Atlanta, a local environmental non-profit organization. The shirts show the logo of the CCC on the front with the Cs made from the phrase, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle." On the back is our catchy slogan, "Word to your Mother ... EARTH!“BLOG

Through our online blog, we encourage the three R’s lifestyle and show alternative methods to reducing, reusing, and recycling. http://westminsterrecycles.blogspot.com/

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Each team member shares the same responsibilities. It is each of our responsibilities to foster awareness by gently reminding people around campus to be responsible about picking up after themselves and remember to recycle. We are each in charge of posting on our blog periodically and attending meetings. In short, we are all in charge of living up to ‘A.P.E’. We must each spread awareness and each participate in the 3 R’s lifestyle, consequently helping to eliminate the threats to our planet.

The steps our team has thus far taken on a local level have already made a larger impact on the world. By recycling one aluminum can, it uses 95% less energy than making new cans from raw materials, saving enough energy to run a television for three hours, the equivalent of about half a gallon of gasoline. Additionally, if thrown away the can will still be a can in 500 years, but when recycled, can become part of a new can in less than six weeks. These small steps, such as recycling an aluminum can, result in a huge impact.

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We were on our local news, 11 alive, regarding our ‘Adopt a Recycling Bin’ program. We also took advantage of our Westminster media outlets to raise awareness about environmental issues and recycling. We have had articles in our school newspaper, alumni magazine, parent’s newsletter and thus have been able to reach out to a large population in an attempt to spread the attitude. We created a blog, where anyone with internet access can see it. In our blog, we strive to connect to a different type of audience than the Westminster crowd. We discuss topics ranging from ways to green up your life to local recycling centers. We have a wiki page. There are quizzes, facts, updates, etc. We also have a “Westminster CCC” group on facebook that allows us to communicate with the rest of the student body about upcoming projects or events such as the Green Cup Challenge and other ways to reduce, reuse and recycle. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2224989259Westminster issued press releases the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, THE major local paper with the greatest local coverage. We are pursuing articles with the Northside Neighbor.

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We installed a StatCounter on our blog. Results:

With our assemblies and recycling awareness, our message was projected to a student body of 1,826 and a faculty of 271. We sold a total of 75 T-Shirts (a profit of about $450!) 100% of the donations went to Trees Atlanta. The Westminster robotics team, The Green Team, took our “Green message” with them to the Peachtree Regional Tournament, introducing our message to 50 other teams from 5 states.

Day Date Page Loads Unique Visitors

First Time Visitors

Returning Visitors

Sun 03/23/08 11 2 2 0

Mon 03/24/08 9 6 4 2

Tues 03/25/08 5 1 0 1

Wed 03/26/08 1 1 1 0

Thurs 03/27/08 2 2 1 1

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30-35 gallons of used cafeteria canola oil converted to 20 gallons of biodiesel. This is used to run the grounds equipment and fork lifts. Learn more about biodiesel fuel at Westminster. Alumni magazines and parents newsletters have also contributed to spread the word to a number of people outside of our community. Articles printed in the school newspaper, The Bi-Line. As one of our high school students wrote in a recent newspaper article about the CCC's activities: "Overall, this year looks to be filled with great ideas and changes for better, for what can’t be accomplished with a room filled with caffeine-energized, idealistic teenagers with a goal?"

100 lbs of batteries collected. This is a considerable amount considering most batteries weigh less than .05 grams!

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16 New recycling bins, which led to an increase in recycled materials

We have also inspired students to extend their recycling. Many, besides from recycling at school, have also started local curbside pickup in their neighborhoods, such as DeKalb County Recycling and Fulton County Recycling. They are often shocked to find how much once trashed material has now become recycled. A Westminster sophomore states, “On weekly average, we recycle about 3 pounds of plastic at home. It’s hard to imagine that all of that used to go into the landfills!”

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Our team and school would like to dedicate the money towards one of the most effective methods of reusing… solar panels for our school. Westminster has already started dabbling in renewable energy sources, such as biofuel, but our next major step would be solar panels. The average cost for solar panels for housing is about $35,000. While this is very expensive, we believe that the funds gained would help us to take a step in the right direction. These solar panels could possibly be used for water heating, building heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and electricity.

We would also like to consider using some of the money for additional bottle bin collection containers or for outdoor paper & bottle collection containers. Although we did get 16 new bins, there are still not enough to accommodate the large Westminster student body. More bins would satisfy the demand, resulting in a higher turnout of recycled materials. Lastly, we currently do not have any outdoor paper or bottle collection containers outside. Our campus is large and scheduling requires switching buildings for various subjects. Because of this, many students throw away bottles and paper away in the outside trashcans. If we had recycling bins placed next to them, it would alleviate the problem.

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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

- Ghandi

ReduceReuse

Recycle