NEWS
Schools, students continue recycling and energy efforts in Magazine March
Phonebook February has given way to Magazine March as the school district continues its effort to reduce waste,improve energy efficiency and accumulate savings. Families are encouraged to drop off unwanted magazines during the month of March to one of the district's three elementary schools. Last month, schools collected unused phone books.
Students in Cohoes are recycling paper at a rapid rate and are asking families and community members to join the effort this month by dropping off magazines for recycling as part of Phonebook February. Abram Lansing’s “Green Team” is leading the magazine recycling effort as part of a larger paper recycling drive happening districtwide. The unwanted magazines are being collected as part of the district's effort to recycle paper. Students from each school collect paper and store it in special recylcling bins. An outside vendor, T.A. Predel & Co., Inc., purchases the school district’s recycled paper on a per pound basis.
At the start of Winter Recess, members of the Abram Lansing Energy Patrol in Jeff Huneau's fifth-grade class welcomed members of the media to watch them canvass the school and remind teachers and building personnel to turn off lights, computers, monitors, and more. Media coverage can be viewed here and here.
The
energy patrols are part of a larger Green Team effort launched in
the Cohoes schools earlier this year. There are Green Team efforts
underway at each of the district’s three elementary schools, the
middle school and the high school, including:
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a districtwide paper recycling effort, where students from each school collect paper in special receptacles. An outside vendor, T.A. Predel & Co., Inc. purchases the recycled paper on a per pound basis.
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a collection of recyclable, returnable bottles and cans by third graders at Harmony Hill School, where proceeds are being donated to the Mohawk Hudson River Humane Society.
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Trayless Tuesdays – an effort in the Cohoes Middle School cafeteria to reduce use of Styrofoam trays.
Earlier this month, the Green Team at Abram Lansing launched its first newsletter, called The Green Gossip, a monthly report the students will use to: update the community on the schools’ recycling efforts; offer tips on energy efficiency and recycling; and inform the school community of upcoming “Green Events.”Read the first issue of The Green Gossip here.
