In the twelfth (12th) year of Keep Bartow Beautiful’s School

Recycling Contest (2015/2016 School Year), Bartow and

Cartersville School Systems collectively sent over half a million

pounds (562,340) of recycling into our "Materials Recovery

Facility" potentially saving very valuable landfill space.

2015/ 2016 School Recycling Contest Project Summary

Pictured Right—”Euharlee

Elementary Recycling Team”. Euharlee

Elementary has led the pack for 6 years in

a row winning first prize each of those

years since 2010. First Prize for the Ele-

mentary Division is a school-wide pro-

gram on “Protecting Wildlife Habitat

through Recycling” by Wildlife Wonders.

This year 25 schools are competing for

prizes and money in two categories: Primary/Elementary Division, and Middle/High School

Division. Twelve (12) other schools

were in the money this year. These

categories were Elementary 2nd,

3rd and Exemplary Effort, Middle/

High School - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Ex-

emplary Effort and 1st place in

“other” category. The contest start-

ed in August, 2015 with the return

of teachers to campuses. Tallied

collections ended officially on

March 31, 2016. Cash awards,

commemorative checks, and Keep

Bartow Beautiful’s 2016 Great

American Cleanup shirts were

awarded to recycling team volun-

teers.

The final totals were:

ELEMENTARY DIVISION

Euharlee Elementary — 122,700 pounds, 238.7 pounds/

student

Mission Road Elementary — 70,860 pounds, 201.3

pounds/student

White Elementary — 27,060 pounds, 49.3 pounds/student

Taylorsville Elementary — 22,040 pounds, 44.7 pounds/

student

Allatoona Elementary — 13,890 pounds, 32.5 pounds/

student

Adairsville Elementary — 17,200 pounds, 26.6 pounds/

student

Clear Creek Elementary — 13,640 pounds, 26.2 pounds/

student

Emerson Elementary — 9,380 pounds, 23.8 pounds/student

Cloverleaf Elementary — 13,600 pounds, 19.2 pounds/

student

Cartersville Elementary — 16,580 pounds, 17 pounds/

student

Cartersville Primary — 13,020 pounds, 14.5

pounds/student

Pine Log Elementary — 3,460 pounds, 9.8 pounds/student

Kingston Elementary — 2,700 pounds, 6 pounds/student

Hamilton Crossing Elementary — 3,280 pounds, 5.8

pounds/student

MIDDLE/HIGH DIVISION

Woodland Middle — 43,490 pounds, 54.9 pounds/student

South Central Middle — 19,700 pounds, 30.3 pounds/

student

Adairsville Middle — 15,660 pounds, 21.5 pounds/student

Cartersville Middle — 22,220 pounds, 21 pounds/student

Cass High — 29,020 pounds, 18.6 pounds/student

Cass Middle — 15,720 pounds, 16.6 pounds/student

Woodland High — 16,680 pounds, 10.1 pounds/student

Adairsville High — 9,560 pounds, 10 pounds/student

Cartersville High — 11,660 pounds, 9.7 pounds/student

OTHER DIVISION

Excel Academy — 18,400 pounds, 82.9 pounds per student

Bartow County central office — 7,380 pounds

Bartow County College and Career Academy — 3,440

pounds, students counted at school of residence

None of the school

programs are man-

datory, and Keep

Bartow Beautiful

relies on the schools

themselves to de-

velop and sustain

their programs, while offering assistance and guidance as re-

quested. Teachers, staff, and student teams spend one or more

hours weekly throughout the school year collecting cans,

bottles, cardboard and paper from classrooms, teacher’s lounges, lunchrooms, gyms and ballfields throughout the

school campus. Keep Bartow Beautiful works with each school to address the needs of the school regarding recycling

containers and their placement, and provides most of the bins for the campus programs, as funding is available.

Many of the recycling team teachers keep up with the school recycling bins, collecting them at year’s end, and redis-

tributing them to each classroom at the start of the new school year.

2015/ 2016 School Recycling Contest Project Summary (continued)

Adding in the free educational field

trips to the landfill, recycling center,

and local water treatment plant, and

the education becomes ingrained in the population

to reduce, reuse, recycle, conserve, and protect.

Recycling items are placed by teams in the school’s

8’X20’ outside covered recycling dumpster, located

on campus, and Bartow County Solid Waste drivers

bring these to the county’s recycling center hub,

where they are emptied and returned to the schools.

All these services are provided free to the schools. In

exchange, the schools have “taught” recycling to the

community, with community collection results show-

ing up at the county’s twelve compactor and recycling centers after

over a decade of contests. Once a good habit is ingrained, it be-

comes second nature to recycle and to seek out

recycling opportunities at home, in Bartow’s parks,

local shopping areas and other public spaces, and

at work. More and more, people are “choosing” to recycle, and asking for more recycling services.