Outfitted with recyclable RightCycle gloves, each group of students was given several bags of trash which were weighed, sorted into bins, then weighed again.
Outfitted with recyclable RightCycle gloves, each group of students was given several bags of trash which were weighed, sorted into bins, then weighed again. Credit: Photos courtesy of Gwen Erley

The students of Loudon Elementary School spent a very rainy Nov. 6 learning the rules of recycling by conducting a school waste audit, known as Trash On the Lawn Day, in their school gym. Gwen Erley, Sarah McGraw and Lindsay Dow from NRRA’s School Recycling Club trained 252 students how to identify and pull recyclables from a sampling of typical school trash. They were assisted by the school’s Environmental Kids Club along with their special guests, the members of the Loudon Recycling Committee.