school help: Okay so i asked my school if they could put in a couple of recycling bins around school. - Help.com

If they think it’s too expensive, maybe you could try and raise the moeny for it so they don’t have to pay for them themselves?

Have a fundriser rise some money because really recycling bins 2 not cost alot opf money my school got 1 in every room

in my middle school we just used cardboard boxes and decorated them. and used those as recycling bins.

I dont know who took the recyclables to the plant, but someone did.

cardboard boxes are very inexpensive.

Good for you for suggesting this, and shame on them!! Yes, I agree… that’s a pathetic excuse. It really wouldn’t cost much, and the amount of $ that could be saved through recycling rather than wasting is HUGE! Don’t give up on this! Maybe you should write to the town too.

Even boxes would work… Dots has a good idea there!

Congrats to you on fighting for a good cause like this!!

Thanks for jumping into the stream of social change! The world needs more kids like you. Don’t give up though, because making change happen always takes persistence. That’s just the way life is, no matter what the cause.

Maybe your idea will have more traction if you can get other students organizing with you together. Could it be presented to your student council or to a teacher to take on as a class project?

Here are some ideas that might serve you:

1. Ask students to sign a petition requesting the right to raise funds for recycling funds and to place them at the school.

2. Get the school janitors on your side. Work out a plan with them for working recycling into the maintenance plan and present that plan to the school with your petition.

3. Use the petition and the written permission to raise funds from the school to ask parents to make a contribution. Figure out how much it will cost and divide that by the student body, maybe, to come up with a reasonable donation to ask for? I dunno, but I think a lot of parents would respond to a specific request if they knew that students were behind it in a level headed way.

4. Whatever you don’t raise from the parents, you raise funds for through some RECYCLING DRIVES (do those still happen in America? I’ve been away for some time…)

Anyway, whatever you decide to do, make sure you think carefully about your plan of action - work through the details so that you know your change will still be in place long after you’ve left the school and you will have made a great impact.

Very exciting! Good luck, and do let us know if you make some headway.

this is the spirit i want to see from young people ,having good ideas and trying to solve this problem with the school is easy.Ring a radio station near your place explain to them the situation and tell them you even try to get on opera about your school attitude as a whole… Don’t give an inch. GOOD ON YOU

Hey, I agree that is a very wonderful thing that you are trying to do. The first thing I would do is contact the News. Tell the School that if they don’t then you will contact the news about this and see what the people of your viewing area have to say. Radio will work good as well as mentioned by someone else before. Maybe just the thought of being on the news or radio might be what they need to just go ahead and do the right thing and get a few recycling bins. This is a very responsible thing that you are doing? Do keep us updated on the response. Thanks and God Bless!

you could also contact the refuse/ recycling place directly. aside from sending the wrong message about the environment, the school is turning down heaps of $ in rejecting your idea.

Maybe a little local newspaper would be interested in this story…. :)

In my school, we made boxes ourselves… If you want to make a change, take action, rather than asking the school to do something for you!!! start a group, raise money, and put bins out yourselves (with the school’s permission of course). Recycling won’t be saving the school money, so the school has no incentive for doing it. They’re a business after all, in its most basic of forms. You’re the one who wants it- so do it!