On Wednesday, January 7th, Chandler’s School had their official kick off assembly for a new recycling program. Students from the middle school Gifted and Talented Program have been recycling on a small scale all year. However, with the help of businesses involved in the Drive to a Million program, the students and community can really go “green.” Drive to a Million provides funds to local schools from money raised through recycling.

At a school wide assembly, students were presented with information about why recycling is important and why we should be playing an active role in securing our future on a cleaner Earth. The Can Man, a representative of Drive to a Million, was also present to encourage students to recycle and entertained them with his can dance. Anne Partlow, an 8th grader, presented a short movie she created on the need to recycle. The Can Man also challenged the homerooms to name the recycling bin at the school. Mrs. Sherrie Pryor’s homeroom won $100 when their name was chosen, “The Bear’s Bin.”

Chandler’s will now be accepting the following items “only” for recycling: aluminum cans, old cell phones, ink jet and laser printer cartridges, plastic water bottles or clean plastic bottles, newspapers, and clean paper products. Bins for these items are located in the school entrance area.

The Gifted and Talented class also would like to encourage anyone living in the Chandler’s community to take part in their online recycling survey. It can be found on the school blog at http://chandlerschatter.blogspot.com. Data that is collected by the students will be used to help design the cycling program around the school and community’s needs. You can also view the recycling movie made by Anne Partlow on this same website.

If you have questions about how to be involved, please call Mrs. Greta Winchester at 542-4139. The school appreciates all the efforts by the students, families, and the community to help us with this initiative. The school would like to thank Logan Aluminum, Bluegrass Recycling, Bowling Green Technical College, and Drive to a Million for giving the school the resources to start the program.