Environmentalism and education intersect for Box Butte County students at their schools and in their communities, what I have referred to as Bulldog Green in regard to Alliance Public Schools. This past Friday, my son chose what he said was just the right t-shirt in preparation for a litter pickup at Dirty Pop with his fourth grade class. Spring outings to bag trash continue to be a popular choice though youth, teachers, staff and administrators put what they learn about the environment into practice throughout the academic year.
Keep Alliance Beautiful Education Coordinator Carlie Foster instills the importance of recycling in ways that enhance classroom curriculum. Area schools undoubtedly incorporate a range of “green” classroom assignments. Typically, things appear on my radar when we are involved at the KAB Recycling Center.
Ross (an APS bus driver), with a high school student or two in tow, delivers cardboard and white paper daily, for instance. We collect at St. Agnes Academy, every week from the kitchen then arrive at least once a month so the eighth graders can load recyclables from the rest of the building.
Alliance High School’s student council gathered (primarily) aluminum cans and plastic bottles and a dozen of the National Honor Society members visited the center to clean up around the building and sort curbside bags. Most recently, I led a tour of the center for a group of 22 first graders from Hemingford who were enjoying a recycling-themed field trip. M.
