Post by Tomspy77 on Jan 15, 2014 22:29:50 GMT -6
Children collect Halloween candy wrappers for recycling
Oh, how sweet it is! Area school students helped turn trash to treasure by participating in a candy wrapper recycling program sponsored by the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The aquarium invited local students to put a little green in their Halloween by collecting used candy wrappers.
Instead of trashing empty wrappers and filling landfills with extra waste, five New Hanover County classrooms delivered garbage bags full of wrappers totaling 7,330 grams, or 16.2 pounds. This may not sound like much, but a single wrapper weighs as little as a tenth of an ounce.
Effie Sparrow’s Green Team class from Murray Middle School collected the most wrappers and won a free aquarium education program. Students from the following classes also participated: Ashley Well’s kindergarten class at Holly Tree Elementary, Cynthia Maddox’s second-grade class at Codington Elementary, third-grade students at Holly Tree Elementary and Deborah Fauble’s second-grade class at Williams Elementary.
The aquarium will send the collected wrappers to a recycling partner, TerraCycle, where the hard-to-recycle waste becomes new products like park benches, purses and backpacks. The aquarium earns two cents for each wrapper to help fund conservation and education efforts.
Oh, how sweet it is! Area school students helped turn trash to treasure by participating in a candy wrapper recycling program sponsored by the N.C. Aquarium at Fort Fisher. The aquarium invited local students to put a little green in their Halloween by collecting used candy wrappers.
Instead of trashing empty wrappers and filling landfills with extra waste, five New Hanover County classrooms delivered garbage bags full of wrappers totaling 7,330 grams, or 16.2 pounds. This may not sound like much, but a single wrapper weighs as little as a tenth of an ounce.
Effie Sparrow’s Green Team class from Murray Middle School collected the most wrappers and won a free aquarium education program. Students from the following classes also participated: Ashley Well’s kindergarten class at Holly Tree Elementary, Cynthia Maddox’s second-grade class at Codington Elementary, third-grade students at Holly Tree Elementary and Deborah Fauble’s second-grade class at Williams Elementary.
The aquarium will send the collected wrappers to a recycling partner, TerraCycle, where the hard-to-recycle waste becomes new products like park benches, purses and backpacks. The aquarium earns two cents for each wrapper to help fund conservation and education efforts.