SENTINEL SOCIAL studies teacher Chris Georgas displays the certificate recognizing his contribution to the recycling movement. Georgas instigated a recycling program at the high school

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that gets the students involved and brings in revenue at the same time.

SENTINEL SECONDARY |
Teacher awarded for recycling

SUPER RECYCLER Chris Georgas has won recognition
from the Greater Vancouver Regional District for his efforts
to promote recycling of paper at West Vancouver’s Sentinel

Secondary School.

Tons of paper, normally col-
lected and disposed of by janitorial
staff, was gathered up by the 14
members of the school’s special
needs class, earning about $1,000
that was spent on computer soft-
ware and field trips for them.

Georgas was one of 13 people
honored at the 5th Annual Recycl-
ing Awards dinner held in June at
the Pan Pacific Hotel. A social
studies teacher, his interest was
sparked by a package on recycling
he happened upon.

After catling Environment
Canada for more information,
Georgas bought about 40 recep-
tacles and placed them in the
classrooms. Then he showed a
slide show and talked to students
on ways they could recycle high-
quality, multi-grade, multi-colored
paper. .

The school’s 47 computers were
producing reams of. high-quality
computer paper, and this was col-
lectable, along with sheets of

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blue-lined looseleaf paper and test
papers that students, for whatever
reason, no longer wanted.

“‘I¢ got to be second nature to
deposit this paper. Before long we
were collecting: tons of paper,’’
recalls Georgas.

The teachable mentally-han-
dicapped youths in the special-
needs class were conscripted into
the job of making the Thursday
rounds to pick up the paper, a job
they soon learned to enjoy.

“They were doing something for
the environment that also had a
sound economic value,’’ says
Georgas.

Next year, Georgas is hoping
that some of the other elementary
and secondary schools will become

involved in the program. He also.

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North Vancouver could have more

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“The blue’ bag collection of
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