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 =**Lexus Final Challenge...** =

Having [|won the Water Challenge], Team 6 received $2500 and is now on to compete in the Final Challenge! They have chosen to do a Waste Awareness Campaign in the school and community.

__Ideas for the project include:__

1. The Landings apartment complex across the street does not have access to any recycling services. We can offer to let them bring their PAPER recycling to Maine East and we'll get paid for it! It's the yellow and green Abbitibi dumpster near shipping and receiving.

3. We could find out where people can bring eWaste in our community and possibly interview the owner(s). Or come up with some way of informing people in our communities about where they can bring eWaste... We must be very careful about this because MOST U.S. eCycling efforts end up with people in developing countries exposed to our toxic electronics as they burn up the parts to make some money.

4. A few people in our ecology club have made waste awareness posters to put up around the recycling stations at school. We considered making another big display to go in one of the science hallways with many of the pictures and statistics from artist Chris Jordan. Check out his site... [|www.chrisjordan.com/] (Click on An American Self Portrait) Maybe this team could put together the big display.

5. Buildings & Grounds says that one of the biggest problems with recycling at our school is that people don't know where to recycle what - if anything but paper is thrown in the blue bins (in the classrooms) then they will not sift through it to recycle the paper (nor should they be expected to) How can we better inform students and staff about what goes where?? Maybe our big poster display can show where we CAN recycle these items at Maine East.

6. Other ideas??