The Dickinson County Envirothon Team, a competitive group of environmentally conscious students from two school districts who meet regularly to learn about the local environment and how to preserve it, will organize a recycling initiative for #5 plastic bottle caps. These caps, which are currently not collected at the local recycling center, are being thrown away, clogging up our landfills, and wasting resources such as gasoline and oil. The team will set up collection bins for the caps at local stores. Bins will be set up in March, and collected on Global Youth Service Days April 15-17.
ddition, three local elementary schools will have a competition to see what class can collect the most caps.
