When the students in Laura Barnhardt’s third-grade class at
Caleb's Creek Elementary School learned about a plastic-bottle-recycling
competition, they decided to participate.
“My class headed the whole bottle drive for our school and worked very hard to raise awareness about recycling,” Barnhardt said. “We collected bottles, labeled each bag, carried them out to our tractor trailer and loaded them.
“Some
students came to the fair in Greensboro and unloaded the trailer. We had a
total weight of 1,854 pounds of plastic bottles collected in one month. We
won the competition and will be receiving $1,000 dollars for our school. We
plan to use that for instructional science materials and possibly a bike
rack.”
The students' drive had countless hours of help from student teacher Anna Powell and from such parents as Tina Swisher and Jolie Lencar, Barnhardt said.
The students' drive had countless hours of help from student teacher Anna Powell and from such parents as Tina Swisher and Jolie Lencar, Barnhardt said.
It also had lots of help from the community.
ChemSource Direct in Kernersville provided bags for the students to use to collect
bottles. Such local businesses as Feeny’s Frozen Yogurt gave the bottles the
company was recycling to the students. Families, neighbors and other members of
the school community contributed.
Best
Logistics Group of Kernersville provided a tractor trailer to use to store the
bottles and to take them to the recycling station when the contest ended. By
the time, the students were done, it was about almost filled to the top.
“I was
very surprised,” Barnhardt said.
And
pleased.
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