COMMUNITY
Last school in 4J starts recycling
Whiteaker kids
learn to recycle
By June Russell
Emerald Reporter
When m hool started in Sep
tember. the energy conserve
tion and recycling programs of
the Kugene 4| School District
went into action at all sr hools
hut one.
While other students muni
tored energy use, and Weyer
haeuser picked up bins of pa
pers students had sorted, stu
dents at Whileaker Klementarv
in north Kugene had no recycl
ing program.
Two University students set
out to change that.
“The kids were just really ig
norant about it." said Amy
Hope, an elementary education
major and one of the founders
of the Whiteaker program.
“First we had to teach the kids
how to recycle with games and
showing them how to do it . "
Teaching students to recycle
wasn't easy. Hope said, and
teachers who treat recycling as
unimportant or time-consum
ing make teaching kids to recy
cle even more difficult.
"Educating the kids was a
long process,'' Hope said
“You have to reiterate all the
time. Teaching it the first time
is the hardest, because it's like
a new subjet I for them
"A few teachers are reluctant
to recycle.'' Hope added
“They think of it as a chore
Thev won't entourage the kids
to recycle or recycle them
selves, so a lot of the classes
aren't recycling as much as
they can.
"I'd say the majority of
teachers aren't into recycling."
she added "They think of it as
a hobby, not a necessity."
University student Brian
Kippet, Hope's partner in the
recycling program, said the de
gree of recycling and the num
ber of boxes in each classroom
depends on the grades level
Third, fourth and fifth graders
do the most sophisticated sort
ing of papers, and have three
Iroxes in each of their rooms.
But every class recycles.
"In the other grades we just
have one box for colored and
one for everything else,”
Kippet said "It's too hard for
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Amy Hope helps Whiteaker Elementary students learn to sort
and recvde.
them to finurr out where differ
ent papers go ."
After teaching the students in
every grade from kindergarten
through fifth to recycle. Hope
and Kippet organized an after
school recycling club to sort
the bins from individual class
rooms into the 55-gallon barrels
Weyerhaeuser collet.Is about
once or twice a month
"We had our first meeting,
and at that point it was kind of
still trial and error." Hope said
"We had all kinds of things in
the bins, like trash and i hoco
late chips, and the paper hadn't
been sorted right
Hut the kids are learning, and
enjoying it For them, recycling
is a fun way to make friends
and save the environment
"You get to bring boxes from
all over the school, and then
sort the papers — that's what's
fun.” said l.inda Okoke, a stu
dent at Whitaker "Also, you
learn to take care of the plan
et."
"When you come to recycl
ing club you see all your
friends here, and make new
friends." student Melissa HI,in
don said "What I like is that
you ran find treasures in the
bins when kids throw in other
stuff with the papers "
Kippet said the amount of re
< vi led paper appearing in the
bins is growing
"We have noticed that
there's more ret ycled paper
getting recycled, and it's cool
that there's a market for re< y
cled paper." Kippet said
"The greatest thing is just
seeing the kids' reaction and
how they get into it," Kippet
said "1 like to see how some of
them take charge and lead it "
In addition to developing lead
ership skills, the students learn
important conservation skills,
which is the most rewarding
aspect of the program, Hope
said.
"It's just 100 percent reward
ing to see that these kids will
lie recycling for the rest of their
lives." Hope said. "I feel like I
got the whole tiling started "
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