Keep on Recycling!

Remember just because our project is over at the school, keep on recycling! Recycle in your home and encourage others to do it too.
A great group to contact is Waste Management if you don't have recycling bins at your home or office. Also your local city should supply your homes with recycling bins, that they would come and pick up.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

Cottonwood Holladay Journal

The Cottonwood Holladay Journal has responded to our press release and is going to do a story on us! Make sure to look for it in a couple weeks in the paper! Also Channel One is looking in on doing one on us! We will keep you updated when we hear more!

Press Release

FOR Immediate Release

Olympus Junior High Students Take Positive Action

to Improve the Environment

Effort Provides Chance to Win Part of $500,000 in Grants and Scholarships

Holladay, Utah, October 26, 2009 – Team Kick Trash, a team of five students from Olympus Junior High, will compete in the third annual Lexus Eco Challenge, a national contest that encourages middle and high school students to develop and implement environmental programs that positively impact their communities.

The Lexus Eco Challenge, created by Lexus, the luxury automaker, and Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, was designed to educate young people about the environment and to inspire them to create a better world. The students at Olympus Junior have accepted the challenge by taking a stand and proving that a small group can bring about big changes. After carefully studying the local environment, the students have developed an Action Plan they feel will benefit their local community.

They are putting recycling bins in their lunch room at school. By doing so they hope to reduce the amount of trash thrown out everyday during lunch that could be recycled. In the last two days they have recycled about 13 pounds of trash. They calculated that if Olympus Junior were to keep recycling just as much everyday, then they could recycle at least 1,170 pounds of trash in one school year.

The community is invited to support the team’s Action Plan by recycling things such as plastic bags, tin cans, unneeded paper, juice cartons, etc. These items are often thrown away and could easily be recycled.

Lexus and Scholastic will choose 16 winning teams nationwide. Each team will receive a total of $10,000 in grants and scholarships. All winning teams from this challenge and one other initial challenge will be invited to participate in the Final Challenge for a chance to win one of two grand prizes of $30,000 in grants and scholarships.

For more information about this local environmental movement or to volunteer, contact:

Name: JoAnne Brown

School: Olympus Junior High School

Address: 2217 East 4800 South Holladay, UT 84117

Phone: (385) 646-5224

E-mail: JRBrown@graniteschools.org

Time For A New Challenge

We are Team Kick Trash for the Lexus Eco Challenge, we have undertook the assignment to spread awareness about recycling. We have put recycling bins in our school in the past week and recycled 140 pounds of stuff!! Thank you everyone for your help!
We went to talk to University of Utah Credit Union and they are thinking about putting in our recycling bins in their many locations! Keep checking this page and we will let you know by Tuesday at the latest if this happens!
Keep recycling!