Recycling For Dollars With T.W. Hunter Middle School
Rogers
Group's saves grocery receipts and recyclable paper products for
adopted T. W. Hunter Middle School.
Six Sumner County
schools received between $300 and $100 in cash for their
recycling programs from Resource Authority General Manager Bob
Brown last Tuesday night during the Board of Education meeting.
The cash prizes were part of the second-year program recognizing
schools at the elementary and middle level for their tonnage
collected throughout the 1996-97 school year.
First place in the elementary division went to Westmoreland
Elementary School -- the second year in a row the 518-student
school has collected the award, surpassing facilities that house
twice as many children.
But Brown indicated Tuesday it's not just the students that have
to participate to make the program successful.
"It takes parents, too," he said. "It's not just
the children that have to put items in the containers, we have to
have parents, teachers, everyone, to make the programs
effective."
Westmoreland was followed by Gene Brown Elementary (527), just
four-tenths of a ton behind at 11.66 tons, while Howard
Elementary (701) was third with 10.59 tons.
Norma McClard of Rogers
Group helps recycling effort.
In the middle school
competition, T. W. Hunter (618) took first place
with a whopping 26.39 tons, more than 10 tons higher than Knox Doss
Middle (503), which finished second with 15.88 tons. Hawkins
Middle School (540) was third with 8.2 tons. There are only two
middle schools smaller than those three -- Westmoreland, which
placed fourth with 8.1 tons, and Ellis Middle, which did not
finish in the top seven out of nine middle schools in Sumner
County.
Brown explained for every ton of cardboard and mixed office
paper, the schools receive the current market value, minus what
it costs to process the material for shipping, about $35 per ton.
That means for a ton of cardboard shipped in August, the schools
receive $100 per ton. For mixed office paper, the rate is $70 a
ton.
(article partial
reprint from The Start News, Hendersonville, TN, Wednesday Oct
15, 1997 by Cameron Collins, Gallatin News Editor)
