[ADEQ Media] ADEQ Director Owens Announces Grants to 18 Arizona High Schools for Recycling by Environmental Clubs

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PHOENIX (Nov. 20, 2008) - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Director Steve Owens today announced that the department has awarded
grants to 18 high schools across Arizona as part of a new program
launched this year by ADEQ to support recycling by Arizona high school
environmental clubs. 

 

ADEQ is awarding a $200 grant to each club to promote recycling at the
school and support the activities of the environment club.  Each club
will place recycling containers provided by ADEQ around its school and
be responsible for making sure that recyclable items collected in the
containers are deposited in a recycling collection barrel. At the end of
this school year, each club will give ADEQ a report on the club's
recycling effort.

 

"This is a great way to help high school students learn about recycling,
while also supporting their environmental clubs," Director Owens said.
"These grants will help students make recycling a part of their daily
life at school and give them resources to support recycling and other
environmental club activities."

 

The grant-winning clubs are:

 

AJHS Green Club

Apache Junction High School

Apache Junction

J-1 OutLoud!!

Agua Fria High School

Avondale

Ecology Club

Gilbert High School

Gilbert

The Telesis Green Team

Telesis Preparatory Academy

Lake Havasu City

NHS Science Club

Nogales High School

Nogales

PCDS Green Team

Phoenix Country Day School

Paradise Valley 

Greenway Recycle Crew

Greenway High School

Phoenix

The Green Team

Westland High School

Phoenix

Blue Planet Society

Carl Hayden High School

Phoenix

Just One Interact

Cortez High School

Phoenix

Roots and Shoots

Bourgade Catholic High School

Phoenix

EARTH Club

Maryvale High School

Phoenix 

Coronado Science Club

Coronado High School

Scottsdale

Horizon Ecology Club

Horizon High School

Scottsdale

Club Green

Sabino High School

Tucson

Green Eagles

Sonoran Science Academy

Tucson

National Honor Society

Luz Academy

Tucson

Student Council

Hayden High School

Winkelman

 

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"News media interested in additional information on this or any other
topic concerning the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality should
contact the Office of Communications at (602) 771-2215 or via email at
communications@azdeq.gov."

 

 

 

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