Green Team divides and conquers its trash
Parras Middle School Green Team members pose with the Redondo Unified School District’s Board of Education. Photo Parras Middle School’s Green Team made an appearance before the Redondo Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education on Tuesday night to tout their accomplishments in shrinking the school’s trash output and organizing the trash output among its student body. The award-winning Green Team is the reason why the Parras campus holds the record for generating the least waste in its local LA County Sanitation District. “When we first started this program, we were originally creating 35 landfill bags of trash per day,” said Green Team advisor Clark Woods. “Now we’re generating four bags per day. The objective was to reduce waste on campus, and by creating a diversion system and a four-stream system, we’ve done that.” Parras student Evan Herr, one of the Parras Green Team’s captains, walked through the process: Green bins are for compostable materials, black is for bottles and cans, blue is for other recyclables and grey is for the remaining landfill trash. “On campus we each have individual jobs that we all do to form a perfect system — our ‘police officers’ monitor the…
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