According to Brown, Blair currently recycles only cardboard, steel food containers and white paper from the library and computer labs. Brown predicted that when full-scale recycling resumes, Blair will recycle 80 percent of its paper and plastic bottle waste. Brown claimed the county is late in delivering dumpsters in which to hold more recyclables. He said the two Blair recyclables dumpsters are full by the biweekly collection dates and that the building has no other appropriate storage space for the discarded materials. He said that the program should be in full strength before next school year.
Every battery has a little bit of raw material, and it all adds up.
He explained that alkaline batteries do not contain recyclable metals and therefore are not included in the proposed recycling program. After meeting with Rick Dimont, coordinator of Montgomery County Residential Waste Reduction, the project's focus shifted to non-alkaline battery collection through schools. The three students began their project as part of the Communication Arts Program's Change Project, which has yielded many community benefits in the project's six-year existence.