{"id":12230,"date":"2017-11-17T11:22:17","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/?p=12230"},"modified":"2017-11-17T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:22:17","slug":"new-club-for-environment-makes-strides-to-prevent-food-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.midlandps.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/new-club-for-environment-makes-strides-to-prevent-food-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"New club for environment makes strides to prevent food waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are high school clubs that have a main goal of caring for the environment, but one club in particular has started up at DHS, and it has separated itself from the rest of the pack: the Go Green Club. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe want to promote the idea of having more recycling right now at Dow High,\u201d junior Jack Brewster said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presently, the Go Green Club is working with Student Council to collect any unopened and unwanted packaged food items into bins on a sharing cart. Some examples of items they are collecting are chips, granola bars, and just any multitude of snacks and packaged products. This sharing cart is in the center of the cafeteria near the checkout lines for hot lunches. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re allowing perishable food items for students who are hungry during lunch,\u201d \u00a0junior Jacqueline Laurin said. \u201cWe want to reduce waste and provide more food to people who want it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alongside that, there is also a fruit basket, which is special in this case, as many clubs of this nature are not interested in donating fruit to reduce excess food. However, cutting down on uneaten fruit appears to be an important issue for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll the students in Go Green Club agreed that fruit was an item that was discarded far too much,\u201d special education teacher and Go Green Club advisor Cynthia Roberts said. \u201cPart of it was that if you buy a lunch, you must take a fruit with it. Many of the members noticed that people went right to go throw it out immediately after they took it. We consulted the cafeteria staff about this, and the staff agreed that they saw too much fruit being trashed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are not only are they trying to reducing unconsumed food, but they are trying to reduce waste in general throughout the school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re adding more recycling bins because garbage bins are more convenient, so more recycling bins will get more recycling,\u201d Laurin said. \u201cPeople want to recycle but they just see garbage bins, so they put their recycling in the trash. But we want to put more recycling bins in the hallways with signs pointing to them to raise awareness and let people know they can recycle, and it will be more convenient.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another one of the ways they are reducing waste is through the free school supplies system in the Charger Closet near the little theatre. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople donate and take from in the media center, because at the end of the year people have notebooks and many extra supplies that they don\u2019t need and they typically trash it, so we want to \u00a0save it this year instead,\u201d Roberts said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are also starting up an initiative in which they are accepting previously used graduation caps and gowns for future graduates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t we have a closet full of old graduation gowns and uniforms for seniors to wear?\u201d Roberts said. \u201cIt\u2019s one less expense for the seniors, and less waste for the gowns.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, the Go Green club is trying to do good for the community by helping limit what people throw away and increasing recycling to help the environment at large.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur mission statement is to reduce waste in the school,\u201d Brewster said. \u201cIt goes back to the idea of saving as much as possible, from saving food and graduation gowns to school supplies and allowing more recycling to save as much as possible. It would definitely save money for everyone. We just want to reduce waste overall and just help the school to recycle more and do better about what we waste, and try reducing waste as much as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are high school clubs that have a main goal of caring for the environment, but one club in particular has started up at DHS, and it has separated itself from the rest of the pack: the Go Green Club. \u201cWe want to promote the idea of having more recycling right now at Dow High,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1891,413,2104,2105,2106,2103],"class_list":["post-12230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-news","tag-environment","tag-food","tag-irshad-reza-husain","tag-recycling","tag-reduce","tag-waste"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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