What are some things my recycling club can do?

Question

For the past years my school had recycling clubs that just fail.

I'm thinking its because they're not doing their job of recycling and/or they're ONLY recycling.

I'm looking for some projects that the students can do like clean up the beach...

do you guys have any other ideas?

Answer 1

You may use: My Best Recycling Idea

Besides recycling the plastic containers, you can improve your work or home environments by bringing live potted plants indoors.

Major items needed:

One empty plastic gallon container.   Tree Top Apple Juice is preferred, or equal in shape.

One empty plastic ½ gallon container.  Langers All Pomergranate Juice is preferred or equal.

Directions:  Lay the plastic gallon container on its side so the front label is facing up.  Place the empty plastic half gallon container on the label and with a sharpie pen outline the bottom on the Tree Top label and with a sharp knife carefully cut the outline.  Insert the half gallon into the hole until it rest on the back label of the gallon container.  Then mark and cut approximately one inch above the cut on the ½ gallon  to complete your planter container.  Remove and drill several ¼ inch holes on the bottom of the ½ gallon cut container for drainage.

Fill the cut ½ gallon planter with one inch of gravel before putting in good potting mix soil and live growing plant.  If you make two or more you can pour the water back and forth and not waste the water with the nutrients.

Go to NASA’s Clean Air Plant Study for the top ten plants that cleans the indoor air better than the rest.   http://www.zone10.com/tech/NASA/Fyh.htm

Answer 2

Make a compost pile.. or tell them too.. or you could sell the compost to people.

Answer 3

you guys could paint a mural. are town i mean. clean around town. pick up trash along a street. encourage a nieghborhood into recycling. encourage city hall to be a more enviormental place. grow more trees, plant flowers, if u want the school to be more involved u guys should raffle something like an ipod : the person who gets the most recycled stuff. make the school more pretty. i wish i had a recycling club in my school but we are too too poor. what a shame. : [