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Nashville School of The Arts is Metro's Top Recycling School for 2007
SCIENCE TEACHER, STUDENTS HELP MAKE NASHVILLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS A MODEL RECYCLING PROGRAM
After winning Metro’s “Top Recycling School” award, Nashville School of the Arts hosted a pizza party in honor of Science Teacher Julius Turnipseed and his ecology class, who created and ran the school’s recycling program.
Principal Robert Wilson thanks members of the Science and Ecology Class at Nashville School of the Arts for their efforts to win Metro’s 2007 Top Recycling School Award.
As this year’s model for school recycling efforts, Nashville School of the Arts will receive a $250 cash award and other prizes.
This is the second year of Metro Public Works’ “Anything That Tears” recycling program partnership with Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS) and Allied Waste (formerly BFI). Approximately 80 MNPS schools participated and recycling volumes were measured for seven weeks to determine the winning school. Metro Beautification and Environment supplies recycling bins for the schools, and Allied Waste provides dumpsters which are emptied weekly.
Allied Waste also provides the $250 top prize cash award for the winning school.
Turnipseed wanted to create a school recycling program at Nashville School of the Arts because “I know how important it is for us as a society to come up with better ways to handle our waste products.”
Other schools making the 2007 contest Top 10 and deserving honorable mention for their recycling efforts are: Glencliff High School, Percy Priest Elementary, Neely’s Bend Middle, Napier Enhanced Option, Gra-Mar Middle, JT Moore Middle, Bordeaux Elementary, Antioch Middle and Pearl-Cohn Magnet High School.
For more information about efforts to promote recycling in Metro schools, visit
http://www.nashville.gov/beautification .