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District Recycling on School Board Agenda Tonight

Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. at School Administration Building.

The Board of Education will hear an update from a Recycling Committee about the costs and benefits related to implementation of a districtwide recycling program.

The committee, which includes school administrators, parents and students, is recommending the district start recycling in phases and that Waste Management provide the recycling services.

According to the recommendation report, the recycling program would start with nine school buildings the first year before expanding to all buildings. It would be a "single stream" recycling program, where all recyclables would be mixed into one container or truck and later sorted at a recycling facility.

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Costs of the program would be $7,544 for the first year (that includes cost of the containers ) and $100,147 for the second year (that includes cost of cement pads for the recycling dumpsters outside the school). Recycling would cost about $14,479 for subsequent years.

Under the program, each school classroom would have a recycling box. Those filled boxes would be then taken to a central container in the building, which would subsequently be taken by custodial staff to a dumpster intended for recycling.

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The meeting tonight is open to the public.


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