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Primrose Students Can Do Their Part
“What can we recycle?”
That question was posed his week during assemblies on renewability and sustainability, but Primrose students seemed to have the answers. They listed paper, plastic, metal and even used batteries as recyclable items.
Presenters from TICCIT — an educational outreach program — were impressed by what the young students already knew.
“They know so much more than we did at eight about recycling,” said TICCIT’s Kristen Clark, who is also the mother of an SIS student. “But it’s important for us to reinforce what they already know.”
TICCIT, which stands for Trees Into Cartons, Cartons Into Trees, led a series of presentations that focused on how paper is made, the steps of the recycling process and the importance of trees. Afterward, students asked the tough questions, like how many trees cover the planet, and which trees are the largest.
The back-and-forth dialogue served a greatest purpose: To stoke the students’ curiosity about the world around them.
“We talked to them about the environment, how important it is and that we need to protect it for them, their kids and their kids’ kids,” Clark said.
Students were sent home from the presentation with more than just an increased understanding of the recycling process and the importance of sustainability. They were each given a pencil and a bag that contained a maple sapling. The bag included printed instructions for how to care for the young tree.
Clark said TICCIT distributed more than 500 saplings.
The message: Plant it and you can do your part.
Said Clark: “We want to make it real for them.”