The Green Team plays a huge role here at Rockbridge with their contribution of collecting and recycling our useless papers. This small act the Green Team does for our school isn’t only beneficial for our school, but also our community.
Senior Fisher Howald discussed what made him want to join Green team.
“They needed people and it’s something that I am interested in like helping the community and reduce the amount of waste going into landfills,” Howald said.
Recycling helps for our oceans and land to not be as polluted and lets us live in a healthier environment. Starting this at club at RCHS encourages others to recycle at school and understand the importance of recycling.
Howald shared why he thinks people would join the Green Team.
“Other people should join the Green Team, because it is really important to try to preserve the Earth that we live on and really reduce the amount of waste that is dumped into landfills every year, and you can do that by helping the Green Team and helping us recycle,” Howald said.
The Green Team has begun to recycle. Staff and students help to contribute to this club by collecting their paper and disposing it into a bin. The bins located around the school are taken to the recycling every Friday. The Green Team is helping to keep paper out of the landfill and is in progress of collecting other items, such as plastics.
Teachers are supplied with a bin to recycle throughout the year for the Green Team. We have asked teachers at RCHS if they participate in the recycling around the school. Of all the
teachers we asked, 80 percent of teachers do recycle and the other 20 percent do not. As of 2021, 57.9 percent of people in Rockbridge County recycle. The Green Team this year is working to increase the amount of people recycling. Another goal the Green Team is trying to reach this year is expanding their recyclables by getting others to recycle more than just paper.
Howald explains what Interact has done to help the Green Team.
“There weren’t many members of the Green Team when Interact joined, there were more members in Interact and we have common goals and the same leadership, so we thought it would be best to partially combine the two, we are not fully combines, but go hand and hand,” Howald said.
This year the Interact and Green Team have combined ideas and motives. These clubs share common interests for bettering the community. Green Team and the Interact club share leaderships skills, so instead of being separate the work together sometimes to form a stronger team. The clubs aren’t fully combined, but still work together.
