Editor’s Note: Last fall, our blogger, Jessica Anderson, a kindergarten teacher in Ann Arbor, MI, wrote about the beginnings of her school’s pumpkin patch and about her students’ fund-raising drive to collect and recycle juice boxes. Today, she writes about th results of the fund-raising drive.

Spiderman won our juice pouch recycling contest, bringing in the majority of the 2,161 juice pouches students recycled.

Spidey and Superman have moved on to other superhero tasks, but the Green Machine continues to bring in the recyclables. Our next challenge is to add as many potato chip bags and ink cartridges as possible to our recycling haul.

Parent Mary Manthey is heading up the effort and recently began decorating the bulletin board above the Green Machine. In keeping with the green theme, she laid out the background with tissue paper and ribbon she’d saved from holiday gift wrapping, and plans to put up pictures of our students in action on each section of the board. She’s got photos of composters, recyclers, reusers…all setting a great example for the rest of Thurston.

Way to go, kids!