Tukwila's Foster High School recycling students celebrate end of project

Foster High School's leadership class will celebrate the end of a recycling awareness project on Friday, June 1, by hosting a community barbeque.

The 3:30 p.m. event will take place at the school at 4242 S. 144th St. in Tukwila.

Inspired by Youth Service Day and Earth Day, students in the Leadership class have "hands on" learning to a new level with their two-month-long project centered on recycling awareness.

Students wrote proposals to obtain food and money, ordered new recycling bins for the school, provided information about recycling, encouraged other students to recycle through "commercials," and talked to representatives from King County Waste Management.

Still in the works are presentations to Tukwila School Board and the Tukwila City Council, making their project sustainable and expanding the education outreach to other schools in the district, and changing the paper contract for Tukwila district to recycled paper.

The goal of the project is to get more people to recycle and reduce waste. Within Foster High School, small changes are already happening.