Recycling comes to Sonoma’s Adele Harrison Middle School

Have you noticed the new bright blue-and-green trash bins on the Adele Harrison Middle School campus? Five large bins around the school quad have a combo layout with trash on one side and mixed recycling on the other. Sixth grade science teacher Tom Edwards, together with Felicia Smith, waste management specialist for the Sonoma County Waste Management Agency, worked to get the funds for these to be donated.

Thirty indoor recycling receptacles are in now place in classrooms, the gym, library, the office and in hallways. “We’re excited to make it easy for our students to recycle every day,” said principal Mary Ann Spitzer. Adele’s sixth graders are spearheading the efforts to collect the recycling every week. This program is the first of its kind on a SVUSD campus.