Two seventh grade boys from McDonald Middle School in
East Lansing are heading up a recycling effort that could reduce East Lansing School District’s paper waste by 19 percent.
Andrew Kaplowitz and Zach Wolfe are attempting to get the
district to reduce its paper waste by reducing paper margins from 1.25 inches to
0.75 inches, which results in 19 percent less paper being used.
Kaplowitz and Wolfe launched their effort in December
2007 and hope to have it rolling by Earth Day 2008.
“They won’t have to unlearn things as much as we have
to,” says Therese Brimmer of Brimmer Designs who helped the boys come up with their recycling plan. “Hopefully they’ll
create life practices that don’t waste resources. It’s a shift in mentality.”
Last year Brimmer helped students at Whitehills
Elementary School in East Lansing develop a recycling program that reduced the
number of trash bags produced at lunchtime from 10 to one.
Source: Therese Brimmer, Brimmer Designs
Ivy Hughes, development news editor, can be reached here.
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