The “Shake and Stack” program helps the district’s phase two initiative to save money via conservation and energy management. The district’s support departments came up with the idea and decided unanimously that it was time to embrace a genuine recycling program on a large scale.

The process as follows: the students place their plastic bottles into the first trash can, shake their tray and excess food into the next trash can, place their tray on the stack and then the custodians collect them and melt them into cubes to be sent off and recycled. The “Shake and Stack” program will help the environment by taking up less space in landfills and making the lunch trays into something new.

“It is an excellent opportunity to begin teaching the value and importance of recycling to students of all ages within the district,” manger of custodial services Jerry Nash said.

Aside from being eco-friendly, this program will benefit the district by saving thousands of dollars, that will go back into the district’s operations infrastructure.

“There are financial benefits to having less refuse hauled,” Nash said.