Sesame Street: Recycling Aluminum Cans
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Melissa McGinnis with Greenopolis TV visits John Burroughs High School to learn about the environmental club’s “Recycling Wrapper Revolution”. These students created a program to raise awareness that candy wrappers should be collected and recycled. Just in time for Halloween the 2 week drive starts and the club hopes to collect a lot on candy wrappers that ordinarily would have been thrown away. They hope the message about recycling more items every day like candy wrappers will have a lasting effect. John Borroughs high school is famous for academic excellence and their choir which a “little” show called Glee has been developed after. But there’s a new club here on campus that’s about to get a lot of attention – the Environmental Club! They’ve started a program called the recycling wrapper revolution. Because they wanted to highlight the fact that not only can wrappers be recycled during Halloween, but all year. They will place these boxes around campus in different locations, that are easily visible, and decorated with various wrappers. They’ll broadcast the event to the whole school on their usual morning show and tell them to bring their candy wrappers from Halloween and put them in the little, handy bins. They’ll also announce this project on loudspeakers at major events so that everyone is aware. The news editor of the school paper will also be writing about this to publicize it even more. They will act as embassadors and inform other students that they can put in …
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