Final School Competition Update – April 22, 2010

After almost 8 months of collecting plastic, the County’s first elementary school plastic bag recycling program competition has come to an end on this, the 4oth Anniversary of Earth Day. All of the elementary schools did a fantastic job recycling plastic film; however, one school out-collected them all.

Congratulations to Windsor Elementary!!!

They collected 5,670.6 pounds of plastic/396,942  plastic bags.

Thank you to everyone for all of your enthusiasm and support of the program. Thank you so much to all of the parents, teachers, administrators, volunteers, and children for all of your efforts. Thank you to Trex and Farm Fresh, our recycling partners.

The formula used to calculate the winner is as follows:

Total plastic bags collected/student enrollment = Bags collected per student

Here are the final totals!

1st Place – Windsor Elementary – 5,670.6 pounds of plastic/396,942  plastic bags

2nd Place – Carrsville Elementary -  1,457.5 pounds/102,025 plastic bags

3rd Place – Carrollton Elementary – 2,707.5 pounds/189,525 plastic bags

4th Place – Hardy Elementary – 1,122.3 pounds/78,561 plastic bags

5th Place – Westside Elementary – 860 pounds/60,200 plastic bags

Grand Total for all 5 schools =  11,817.9 pounds/827,253 plastic bags

Windsor Elementary School receives a pizza party and a Trex bench for their school! The pizza party will take place before the end of the school year!

Keep saving your plastic because there will be another competition next school year!

Happy Earth Day!