Saving the planet one class at a time

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Mimi Richards
March 12, 2010
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For the past four years Environmental Science teacher Meredith Lohr has been assigning a recycling project for all of her classes to complete over a two-to-three month period. Requirements for the project are to keep a journal documenting your accomplishments, recycling at least three items, and taking a decent amount of pictures proving you didn’t fabricate any information. In the end, her students were to make a scrap book assembling all the pictures together.

“Completing this project was a way of showing students that recycling really isn’t a difficult task. Also, recycling is definitely a key concept in Environmental Science, and it teaches about conservation of resources,” said Lohr when asked why she assigned the project. “I just want all my students to give recycling a try.”

Growing up in Springfield, Virginia, Lohr grew up recycling and was raised to be conscientiously aware of the environment; so, when she moved to Spotsylvania she was very surprised to see that many people didn’t recycle.

“I’m happy to say that the county is FINALLY moving forward from just recycling the white paper. The biggest thing I would like to see recycled is aluminum. But, I’d like to see the school turn it around and make a profit off of the cans we saved. It’s a win/win situation,” said Lohr when asked what changes she would like to see at Spotsy.

When it comes to saving the planet Mrs. Lohr is willing to take up any challenge, and there isn’t a better place to start than with the Earth’s newest generation. “I want people to know that of all the classes in the school, MINE is the most important, I mean, we only have ONE earth, right? Better learn how to treat it well and sustain life for a long time!”