Hillcrest Middle MACC classes have partnered with Call2Recycle® to make convenient battery recycling available to the school community of Hillcrest Middle School. The only free rechargeable battery and cell phone collection program in North America, Call2Recycle helps communities operate household battery and cell phone collection programs.
In our one week trial collection, Hillcrest Middle School collected almost 400 batteries.
Batteries are a long-lasting, eco-friendly power source for many electronic devices, including laptop computers, cell phones, portable scanners and printers, power tools and PDAs.
Hillcrest Middle and families of students at Hillcrest Middle can now recycle the batteries used in the school and at home every day, preventing the used products from entering the solid waste stream.
Since 1996, over 31 million kilograms of batteries have been collected through Call2Recycle. Various federal and provincial regulations govern the proper disposal of batteries and cell phones, naming Call2Recycle in official legislation as the collection method for eco-safe battery and cell phone reclamation and recycling. Call2Recycle is the first battery program to attain Basel Action Network (BAN) e-Steward qualification and upholds strict third-party standards for environmental safety and social responsibility.
About Call2Recycle Call2Recycle® is the only free battery and cell phone collection program in North America. Since 1994, Call2Recycle has diverted over 31 million kilograms of rechargeable batteries from local landfills and established a network of 30,000 recycling drop-off locations. Advancing green business practices and environmental sustainability, Call2Recycle is the most active voice promoting eco-safe
reclamation and recycling of batteries and cell phones. Call2Recycle is operated
by the non-profit Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC). Learn more at call2recycle.ca or 877.2.RECYCLE.
This week we celebrated the completion of the Eminent People Project. Students sat down to enjoy a pasta lunch and became the Eminent Person they studied for the past month. Students prepared a display about their person, interacted with class mates as their person and participated in a trivia game. Students were thrilled to welcome Trustees Holly Butterfield and Gerri Wallis to the classes and to talk with them about why they chose their person of eminence. We were also pleased to have parents come into the classes to talk with the students and look at the displays.
