Rolling the dumpsters

This is a pic of students rolling one of the big white dumpsters out to School street so that Waste Management can haul it off to the recycle center. The plastic or aluminum has a value at the recyling center on Old First Street, who writes out a check. Within a week or so a check arrives in my box, which I hand over to the student club that hauled the recycled materials from the recycle stations to the dumpsters. Without students doing the work, none of this would happen. The check is usually between $110 and $180 dollars for the dumpster of plastic or aluminum. LHS recycles around twenty dumpster-loads a year. That is a large amount of material that will not go to the landfill. And, it is a huge quantity that our custodians do not have to carry around and deal with.