Recycling Update
A milestone
We are very proud to announce that for the first time we recycled all plastic bottles, soda cans and glass bottles at this year’s Spring Benefit. We recycled close to fifteen hundred containers in all. Many thanks to Donice Bloodworth, Brenda Andrews, John Sagaas and Antonio Lanes for coordinating this effort.
News from the Primary School
Awareness week in the Primary School was very successful. The students learned about many interesting facts related to recycling. Our presenter, Mrs. Ann Kirk, was very impressed with the ability of our students to ask relevant questions and their keen listening skills. She also donated a book to our school library. It is called, The Day the Trash Came Out to Play.
A survey was conducted last week to gauge how many students in the Primary School were remembering to recycle. The approximate percentage is between 85 and 90 percent students. We are working on increasing this to 100 percent participation.
I would like to thank the following students from the Little Blue Club for their participation in our recycling efforts at AIS, from March 24 - April 13:
Grade 1: Nicolas Binder, Julia Dorsch, Rhea Epperson, Dennis Fricke, Anna Fritz, Alexandra Herbst, Sophie Klass, Luka Lucic, Luca Schwarzenbauer
Grade 2: Dani Adelman, Sophie al Mutawaly, Hana Barhoumi, Max Boeckle, Noah Brooker, Elyse Collins, Jessica Hartz, Anais Thien, Isabelle Topp, Sidney Wilke
Grade 3: Claire Adair, Valentina Amazonas, Erik Mauer, Jakob Mitchell, Anna Pusterhofer, Viviane Reinecke, Felipa Schmidt, Sarah Stebbins
Grade 4: Christopher Jordan Latiff, Alanna Kapoor, Sammy Levine, Ivanna Martinez-Gonzalez, Amina Montaña, Cypress Rankin-Austin, Shreya Shah
Grade 5: Lukas Pusterhofer, Michael Sandmeier, Henrike Schmidt, Theresa Schmidt, Ludwig Seuss, Rogier ten Lohuis, Amelie Thielemann, Arnaud Thien, Lisa Tobiassen
Electronics Recycling Day
Cobb County is hosting a fair on May 7 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at two different locations to collect electronics that can be recycled. This collection will allow for the proper disposal of items through recovery and re-use of valuable materials. Recycling electronics conserves landfill space and natural resources.
Location 1:
Jim R. Miller Park
2245 Callaway Road
Marietta, GA 30008
Location 2:
Wal-Mart Shopping Center
3100 Johnson Ferry Road
Marietta, GA 30062
For more information, please call 770-528-2500.
The e-flyer for this event, along with the list of electronics that can or cannot be recycled, has also been forwarded to all parents and faculty members via e-mail.
Food for thought
The Sumitomo Corporation of Japan, a world-wide trading company, estimated that:
- from one ton of old cell phones, 230 grams of gold can be recovered;
- yet one ton of mining waste only generates 62 grams of gold
If the estimated 130 million cell phones discarded each year in the US were recycled, the phones would yield about 202,000 ounces of gold, keeping approximately 65,000 tons of toxic waste from landfills and incinerators.