Scout Clair (age:17)
Megan Tamblyn (age:17)
Goal: To help the environment by collecting everyday products that can be donated and reused to create cool new products. To create awareness about what to recycle, how to recycle, why we do it, how you can recycle at home and the positive effect recycling can have on our environment.
What: Using terracycle (terracycle.net) we can donate everyday items that most people just throw away. We collect these items and ship them to terracycle’s many locations and in return, the schools that we collect at will receive 2 cents for every item collected. Products include Ziploc, Tupperware other containers, Candy wrappers, Chip bags, Cookie bags, Inkjet printer cartridges in library and staff clusters etc. We hope to do this in both our own school as well as some of the elementary schools in our area. If we can get young kids to think that recycling is both fun and valuable, they will hopefully continue to be responsible recyclers for life.
Work Day
Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 21:47A few weeks ago, all three of us got together and ironed out some details in our project. We finished sorting all our collections, along with counting our total of all the...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 22:18" The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for their environment, but humans change their environment for themselves." - Ayn Rand To...
[Read More]Group Sesh!
Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 23:10Today, we all got together and combined our collected materials. We got around 1,500 Ziploc Bags, 200 Plastic Bottles, 700 Chip Bags, and 100 Juice Pouches. We aren't...
[Read More]Blog Prompt #5
Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 23:05Shout Outs: Amanda Greenvoss: Supporting us, helping us organize our project, fundraise, giving us resources to aid in the development of our project. Sarah Kirby: Educating...
[Read More]Blog Prompt #4
Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 22:51Mission We, the Polar Rangers, are committed to reducing the build-up of waste in landfills by recycling; therefore reducing the production of new materials. Through our...
[Read More]Update
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 21:30We haven't blogged in a while, so here is an update of our project! Westview: The bins have been out and we have been checking on them daily. We are seeing some great stuff...
[Read More]Blog Prompt #3
Friday, December 9, 2011 - 17:11It is clear that so many people are struggling these days to make ends meet. Our project doesn't cost any money, we are simply collecting things that would be normally thrown...
[Read More]Blog Prompt #2
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 19:26No matter where we are in this world we can always make an impact on the environment around us. "Because even though you are one place in this world, you are going to be...
[Read More]BLOG PROMPT #1
Sunday, December 4, 2011 - 14:17Hello there! We are officially the Polar Rangers. We have been blogging for a while now but we haven't said much about ourselves and how we came to be a PPB Team...
[Read More]Washing Bottles!
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - 21:48During our weekly chat with Amanda, our adult advisor, she asked us if we would be willing to lend our received bottles to another PPB team for their display at the zoo. We...
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