Last week, Jaymee’s school, Clay Middle School, held their first Clay Challenge – PTO fund-raising event. Students would run/jog/walk for 30 minutes around the track to raise money and awareness about the benefits of exercise and healthy living. There were 1200+ students participated.

The PTO provided event t-shirts and water bottles for all students. Being a PTO Green Team member at Clay, and having 2 cardboard recycle bins available, I offered to help collecting the water bottles for recycling.  With Jennifer Lapel and Wendy Wiese’s help and effort, we saved more than 700 plastic bottles from ended up in our landfill.

Great work!!

But when I was going through the bins to take off the bottle caps, more than 30% of them were still half-full, even a few of them were completely full. How sad… Ounce by ounce, bottled water is more expensive than gasoline!

There must be a better way, less wasteful way.