Recycling Update

by Ayesha Siraj, AIS Parent

News from the Primary School

Primary School is scheduled to have a recycling awareness week from April 4 - April 9. Our guest speaker for this week will be Ms. Ann Kirk. Students in 4k through Grade 2 will learn how to reuse and recycle different materials. Grades 3 through 5 will participate in a hands-on paper recycling experiment.

I would like to thank the following students from the Little Blue Club for their participation in our recycling efforts at AIS, from February 19 - March 24.

Grade 1: Meggie Bente, Nicolas Binder, Julia Dorsch, Justin Steinworth, Tom Strong, Badie Talebagha, Alice Tirard and Bonnie Watkins

Grade 3: Sophie Archer, Jack Binder, Marina Brand, Lucas Fischer, Erik Mauer, Jakob Mitchell, Maxime Tamsett, Anna-Maria Triea and Christopher Wong

Grade 4: Anisa Amin, Tyler Collins, Pilar Duralde, Hannah Farhadi, Christopher Ferandel, Niani Gibson, Zoe Taylor, Leila Varzi, Lan-Anh Vo and Elizabeth Weal

Grade 5: Kilian Fischer, Patrick Kiessling, Marie Lindheim, Nadine Marfurt, Nicki Martin and Philip Mitchell

Food for thought

Paper:

• By recycling one ton of paper, you save 17 trees (Source - Weyerhaeuser).
• Today 62 million newspapers will be printed in the United States and 44 million will be thrown away. That means the equivalent of 500,000 trees will be dumped in a landfill this week (Source - The Earth Work's Group Recyclers handbook).