Mancelona Elementary is going GREEN this year!

Mancelona Elementary is going GREEN this year!  We are an Official Green School!

There are a few ways you can help us with being green. One is by bringing in used printer cartridges. The cartridges will be turned in to Staples and used to get school supplies. We will also be collecting used cell phones to recycle.

We will be doing the following things this year:

1. Recycling paper and reusing it.  We will also be recycling magazines and catalogs.

2. “Adopting” an endangered animal.  We are fundraising in the hopes of each grade level being able to “adopt.”

3. We have a bulletin board in the library which will be updated monthly on ways to help our Earth.

4. We will be putting up some birdhouses for our birdhouse habitat project.

5. We recycle empty ink cartridges.  This also serves as fundraiser for the school.  The cartridges are taken to Staples, where we are given a credit.  We then purchase paper and other supplies for the school.

6. This year we will be recycling used cell phones.  The cell phones that are turned into the office will be recycled by giving them to the Women’s Resource Center.

7. We observe Earth Day and this year we will be having a Poster Contest!

8. We will be helping to save the Rain Forest this year also!  This will be done by merely by clicking on a website!