All over the LHS campus, there are 57 recycle stations. However, the big gym, which hosts many sporting events and school activities year-around, seems to have missed out on the recycle movement. Brooke Betts and Christina Barras, LHS seniors, noticed the need for recycle stations when they had no place to put their plastic water bottles after sport practices. Brooke and Christina took the initiative and wrote a grant application to build new recycle stations for the gym. The proposal for $2800 was accepted by the Altamont Education Advisory Board. The stations will be built on the LHS campus. Mr. Waltz and his Green Engineering Academy will make the designs, which will be give to Mr. Porter and his ROP class to build the stations. The recycle station will have a slot designed to prevent theft of our recycling money. Additionally, they will be built on wheels to be easily transported around the gym floor. Brooke told schools.stopwaste.org, “I figured if the rest of the school has recycling stations that the gym deserves one too.”
