Earth Day Recycle Challenge
Take the Earth Day Recycle Challenge
Each year, the Kent County Board of Public Works invites all Kindergarten through grade 5 schools in the Kent ISD to participate in the Earth Day Recycle Challenge to promote an awareness for Earth Day (celebrated April 22nd each year) and to encourage recycling at an early age. Schools are challenged to collect a specific item for recycling, and awards are given out to the top performing schools based on a per student average of the collected item. In 2008 & 2009, participating schools were challenged to collect at least 15 plastic grocery bags per student. Past Recycle Challenge collected items have included plastic milk jugs and telephone books. Winners will be posted here!
| 2010 Earth Day Recycle Challenge Announcements |
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1/4/10 Recycle Challenge brochure (pdf) 2/8/10 The item collected this year is...CD and DVD discs! 2/8/10 Recycle Challenge FAQ (pdf) 2/8/10 CD & DVD information: The Life Cycle of a CD or DVD poster The Life Cycle of a CD or DVD poster (spanish) Discovery Channel YouTube video - How Its Made: How DVD & CD are Made BBC News link How the CD was Developed 3/8/10 The top 3 schools in the Challenge so far: 1st place: Discovery Elementary (recycled 4.47 discs/student so far - goal met!) 2nd place: South Godwin (recycled 2.82 discs/student so far - goal met!) 3rd place: Lincoln Developmental Center (1.23 discs/student recycled so far!) 3/25/10 The final day to drop off discs is Saturday, March 27th at 1pm. Deliver discs to 322 Bartlett SW, Grand Rapids. Please have all entries submitted on the website by 8am on Monday. The top 3 schools in the Challenge so far are: Lake Michigan Academy with a per student average of 42.8 discs West MI Academy of Environmental Science with a per student average of 32.3 discs Shawnee Park Math/Science/Technology Academy with a per student average of 6.2 discs
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Registration for the 2010 Earth Day Recycle Challenge is closed. Please check back in January of 2011.
Prizes, similar to this bench, will be awarded to the top performing schools in the 2010 Earth Day Recycle Challenge!
2010 Earth Day Recycle Challenge Participants
| Final Ranking |
School Participants | CDs Collected Per Student | ||
1 |
Lake Michigan Academy
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44.00 | ||
2 |
West MI Academy of Env Science
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38.31 | ||
3 |
Meadow Brook Elementary School |
23.18 | ||
4 |
Byron Center Charter
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18.26 | ||
5 |
Assumption BVM School
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16.26 | ||
6 |
Evergreen Christian School |
12.18 | ||
7 |
Lee Elementary |
7.62 | ||
8 |
Sacred Heart of Jesus School
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6.63 | ||
9 |
Shawnee Park Math/Science/Technology Academy
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6.27 | ||
10 |
Lakeside Elementary
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6.17 | ||
11 |
Discovery Elementary
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6.00 | ||
12 |
Emmons Lake Elementary
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5.77 | ||
13 |
Pine Ridge Elementary
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5.33 | ||
14 |
Grand Rapids Adventist Academy
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5.13 | ||
15 |
Campau Park Elementary
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4.56 | ||
16 |
Mulick Park Elementary
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4.21 | ||
17 |
North Godwin Elementary
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4.08 | ||
18 |
Zion Christian School
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4.06 | ||
19 |
Brown Elementary
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3.97 | ||
20 |
St. Paul the Apostle
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3.93 | ||
21 |
South Godwin Elementary |
3.65 | ||
22 |
Creative Technologies Academy
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3.36 | ||
23 |
Glenwood Elementary School
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3.35 | ||
24 |
Rockford Christian
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2.70 | ||
25 |
Explorer Elementary
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2.66 | ||
26 |
Cherry Creek Elementary
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2.24 | ||
27 |
Lincoln Developmental Center
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2.21 | ||
28 |
Valley View Elementary |
1.71 | ||
29 |
St. Andrew's School
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1.63 | ||
30 |
Grandville East Elementary
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1.61 | ||
31 |
Breton Downs Elementary
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1.42 | ||
32 |
Cummings Elementary
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0.95 | ||
33 |
Bushnell Elementary |
0.66 | ||
34 |
Knapp Forest Elementary
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0.23 | ||
| The number to the right of each school is the average number of discs that each student in the school collected. The green shaded boxes are schools that reached their goals (each school's goal was at least 2 discs per student). The top 10 schools won benches. Thanks to these schools, more than 62,000 CDs and DVDs were recycled! Find out where you can recycle CDs and DVDs. | ||||
