Over the past month, Schechter’s Environmental and Jewish Youth Climate Movement (JYCM) Club has been working tirelessly to reimplement effective recycling into our school and other schools in the district.
Junior Samson Mildron, one of the club’s co-JYCM representatives, explained, “The Mineola public school district (of which the Schechter School of Long Island is technically a part) stopped its recycling program around when COVID-19 happened. This means that, for a number of years, all of these schools, including our own, have not received the proper funding in order to ensure that recycled materials are collected and sent to the places where they [are] recycled.”
Sophomore Shir Levenson, another co-JYCM representative, shared that the club members “talked to local Mineola and Williston Park school officials and found out that most schools in our school district don’t recycle for various reasons, either because it's expensive or complicated.” She added that the club’s “goals are to implement the program either through the town and school system or within our school.”
Mildron went on to share that the club is being supported in this by JYCM. This group is spread across the United States and aims to help Jewish teenagers work towards a better planet for our generation and the next ones to come. JYCM provides support, activities, and resources for the Environmental Club as well as many other groups across the country.
Junior Samson Mildron, one of the club’s co-JYCM representatives, explained, “The Mineola public school district (of which the Schechter School of Long Island is technically a part) stopped its recycling program around when COVID-19 happened. This means that, for a number of years, all of these schools, including our own, have not received the proper funding in order to ensure that recycled materials are collected and sent to the places where they [are] recycled.”
Sophomore Shir Levenson, another co-JYCM representative, shared that the club members “talked to local Mineola and Williston Park school officials and found out that most schools in our school district don’t recycle for various reasons, either because it's expensive or complicated.” She added that the club’s “goals are to implement the program either through the town and school system or within our school.”
Mildron went on to share that the club is being supported in this by JYCM. This group is spread across the United States and aims to help Jewish teenagers work towards a better planet for our generation and the next ones to come. JYCM provides support, activities, and resources for the Environmental Club as well as many other groups across the country.
The club loves helping the environment! (R. Rogers)
Mildron feels that “by doing this, we will be inspiring and [making] change so other public schools ... will hopefully follow suit.”
Mildron concluded, “We still have a long way to go. We have talked to many people, and they have all led us on our path, but we are yet to have a conversation with the person who actually has the power to bring recycling back to our school. We are working on getting in touch with him right now.”
If all goes well, Schechter will soon begin to see places for students and staff to recycle their garbage instead of throwing it all away.
Sara Rosenthal is a writer for Paw Print Now. Sara is currently a freshman at the Schechter School of Long Island and can be reached at the following email address: srosenthal27@schechterli.org.
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