VIDEO: ABRHS Receives Green Flag Award
It's unbelievable what a group of motivated high school students can accomplish.
In a very short period of time, a group of Acton-Boxborough Regional High School students dropped the school's electricity consumption by 10 percent, completely reorganized the school's cafeteria waste system by providing recycle and compost bins (in which the recycling has been brought to 250 percent from the previous year and the amount of trash bags headed to the dumpster everyday was reduced from an average of 40 bags to four), started a reusable water bottle campaign (encouraging students to drink Acton's water), and if that wasn't enough, constructed a rain garden with the help from the Acton Garden Club. Several students who devoted a great deal of their time to revamp the school's consumption of waste were awarded with the …
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Brian Dempsey
7:47 pm on Thursday, May 10, 2012
AB is fortunate to have dedicated people like Kate Crosby and an incredible group of hard working and enthusiastic students transform the campus into a Green School. more ›