Thursday, April 23, 2015

Third-Graders at Caleb's Creek Elementary Win Recycling Contest


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.

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.

To see the story about the contest on WXII-TV, go to WXII




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