Project Description McCardle Mustangs Green Team is a project started last year and greatly expanded since September of 1998. The goal of this project is for children to become socially responsible by recycling all feasible items that are generated at school. All students become a full participating community with reciprocal relationships, shared rights and responsibilities with purpose. By contributing to the recycling effort, they learn the responsibilities to take care of others of today and tomorrow.
Students learn accountability through practice.
Last year, we began a paper recycling program that was run from my classroom for the entire school. We calculated that 12 trees per month were saved by this effort. This school year, we decided that paper is not enough. Our school breakfast and lunch programs generate 18 large bags of garbage each day that are carted to a landfill. We researched the items that would could be recycled and determined that plastic, aluminum, and drink boxes should be added.