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2007 Longhorn Recycle Roundup Winners Announced!

Congratulations to the below schools for their outstanding campus recycling, conservation, and beautification initiatives. Winning school receive $500 to continue to improve upon their Green efforts.

  • Austin Discovery School
  • Bryker Woods Elementary School
  • Garza Independence High School
  • Gullett Elementary School
  • Summitt Elementary School

Schools with new recycling programs are recognized with the Coca-Cola Recycle Rookie Award. The 2007 Coca-Cola Recycle Rookie Award and $250 cash prize winner is Eanes Elementary School.

Winning Schools also Receive:

  • Tickets to a Texas football game for 3 school representatives
  • Entry to a pre-game party at the End Zone Club (live music and free food!)
  • A commemorative plaque
  • School representatives will be recognized on the field at half-time

2007 Longhorn Recycle Roundup Winner Highlights

Bryker Woods Elementary School
Bryker Woods Elementary’s comprehensive approach to environmental stewardship sets them apart form other schools. Their activities blend recycling and conservation into the school curriculum while involving teachers, students and parents to green their campus. Ongoing paper, plastic bottle, aluminum can, cell phone and shopping bag recycling at the campus is complimented with plastic and aluminum recycling at School Night, Fall Carnival and other school events.

The PTA raised funds through  weekly breakfast taco sales to eliminate Styrofoam trays in the cafeteria and replace them with reusable trays. As a result, the custodial staff is taking out six fewer bags of trash per day. Additional waste from the cafeteria is diverted into the schools four outdoor compost bins and classroom worm-composting bins in the kindergarten, 2nd, 4th and 6th grades. The school has a certified Wildlife Habitat and has held work days with students and parents to cleanup Shoal Creek. Their latest project includes rebuilding an outdoor classroom on the banks of Shoal Creek.

Congratulations, Bryker Woods Panthers!