Bartow County and City of Cartersville Schools recycled a total of

574,370 lbs in the 16/17 school year (an increase of 12,030 lbs over

last year’s results). This, the thirteenth (13th) consecutive year of

the Keep Bartow Beautiful School Recycling Contest netted 574,370

lbs of recycling into our "Materials Recovery Facility" saving very

valuable landfill space hopefully delaying expansion needs into the

future. Every individual school’s program is different but what re-

mains the same is that each school has at least one very important

lead teacher who also has his/her principal’s support. The most win-

ning schools also have an involved community that supports their

program through recycling from homes and possibly businesses.

This year’s first place winners in the Elementary School Division have

been in the running since 2011 when three schools (Adairsville, Mis-

sion Road and Euharlee Elementary Schools) were recognized with a

Wildlife Wonders Show. They have held onto First Place since 2012.

Other schools like Clear Creek Elementary School (Principal Dr. Kelly

Wade and Lead Teacher Susan Gilmore) have gotten creative using their recycling numbers to help win an

entertaining and motivational visit by “Freddie” from the

Atlanta Falcons. (See Picture above). They also created

a motivational movie to encourage recycling . (See:

http://www.bartowga.org/departments/

Keep_Bartow_Beautiful/School_Recycling_Contest/

Recycling%20video.MOV)

2016/ 2017 School Recycling Contest

Project Summary

1st Place Elementary School (Lead Teacher

Tracie Varvel and Principal Sharon Collum)

(144,460 LBS OR 297.9 LBS PER STUDENT)

None of the school programs are

mandatory, and Keep Bartow Beauti-

ful relies on the schools themselves

to develop and sustain their pro-

grams, while offering assistance and

guidance as requested. Teachers,

staff, and student teams spend one

or more hours weekly throughout

the school year collecting cans,

bottles, cardboard and paper from

classrooms, teacher’s lounges, lunch-

rooms, gyms and ballfields through-

out the school campus. Keep Bartow

Beautiful works with each school to

address the needs of the school re-

garding recycling containers and

their placement, and provides most

of the bins for the campus programs,

as funding is available. Many of the

recycling team teachers keep up with

the school recycling bins, collecting

them at year’s end, and redistrib-

uting them to each classroom at the

start of the new school year.

3RD PLACE ELEMENTARY

DIVISION- Taylorsville

Elementary is consistently

in the running having ac-

complished 3rd place fin-

ishes the last two years.

Lead Teacher Michelle

Henry - supporting Princi-

pal Bernadette Dipetta.

(28,940 LBS OR 166.8

LBS PER STUDENT)

2ND PLACE ELEMENTARY DIVI-

SION - Mission Road Elementary

has consistently placed in the top

three since at least 2008/2009 —

winning 2nd since the 2013 con-

test, after having placed 3rd in

2012. Lead Teacher Vicky Haley

— supporting Principal Sheri

Hughes. (75,420 LBS OR 297.8 LBS

PER STUDENT)

1ST - Woodland Middle School

placed first in the

MIDDLE/HIGH School

Division. Historically

they have held that posi-

tion for the past two

school years having risen

from a 2nd place in 2015

and a 3rd place in 2014.

(56,890 LBS OR 72.6 LBS

PER STUDENT)

2nd Place (Middle/High Division) - Adairsville

Middle School (19,420 lbs or 25.7 lbs per student.

Lead teacher Belinda King—supporting principal

Brian Knuchel. (19,420 LBS OR 25.7 LBS

PER STUDENT)

1st PLACE IN “OTHER”

CATEGORY - EXCEL

CHRISTIAN ACADEMY

recycled 10,340 LBS OR

62.6 LBS PER STUDENT.

Lead teacher Ken

Baker— Supporting

Principal Tammy

Griffith.

2ND PLACE - In the “Other/Private/Career” Category

- The Bartow College and Career Academy

improved a dramatic 40% over 2015/16’s numbers

by raking in 11,940 LBS or 23.9 LBS PER STUDENT.

Lead Teacher Lanier Turley with supporting Principal

- Dr. Paul Sabin

3rd Prize (Middle/High

Division) went to Cass

High School. Lead

teacher Chuck Bohan-

non - Supporting

Principal Michael

Nelson . (38,080

LBSOR 24 LBS PER

STUDENT)