This extra curricular activity is open to any student in our school interested in learning more about environmental issues and acting on his/her concern for the environment. We hold meetings after school in room 114 and new members are always welcome.  Listen to the student daily bulletin for meeting dates.

 
     What do we do in ECC?               Recycling at South		Recycling other Stuff
Quotes to ponder
Man did not weave the web of life- he is merely a strand in it.  Whatever he does to the web he does to himself- Chief Seattle
You must be the change you wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi
In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.
- From The Great Law of The Iroquois Confederacy

Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it. - Alan Watts

I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security.  Defense of our resources is just as important
as defense abroad.  Otherwise what is there to defend?- Robert Redford

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. - Kurt Vonnegut

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. - Margaret Mead

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment. - Rene Dubos

The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else. - Barry Commoner (1917-) US biologist, environmentalist

The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives. - Native American Proverb

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all. - Robert Orben

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see the land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. - Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) US forester, conservationist

The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible. In this now universal contamination of the environment, chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world--the very nature of its life. - Rachel Carson 1962

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better, it's not.
-The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss

http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/memajs/quotes/environ.html

http://www.solarhaven.org/Quotes.htm

more quotes!   http://www.quotegarden.com/environment.html

 What do we do in ECC?  Our members determine our activities. Past & present activities include:

 

 

Recycling

We recycle the following at Hinsdale South:

Thing Where? Other Comments
Paper in classroom and office bins no cardboard, tissues, candy wrappers or plastic bottles.  Contact: Lori Wakat X4030
Aluminum cans in cafeteria and other places where there may be bins Contact: Randy Patterson X4322
Computer Printer Cartridges Mail Room Contact: Susan Camasta X 4503
Software (CDs, video tapes, audio tapes) bin outside the Library Contact: Susan Camasta X4503
Batteries bin outside the Library Contact: Susan Camasta X4503
Transparencies box by the transparency maker in the media center Contact: Susan Camasta X4503
Cell Phones Mail Room Contact: Susan Camasta X4503
Gym Shoes wait for announcement Contact: Susan Camasta X4503
Clothing wait for announcement Contact: Nancy Betker X4571
Plastic water bottles (PET) in cafe & outside library Contact Susan X4503

 

Recycling Other Stuff!

Check out the DuPage County Recycling Guide linked in the left frame.  Some other ideas are here courtesy of "Real Money", July/August 2004 issue.  If you know of others contact the webmaster!

Electronics:

http://www.epa.gov/reg5rcra/wptdiv/solidwaste/electronics.htm

Environmental Protection Agency webpage. Lots of information and links for recycling computers, cell phones and more.

Bicycles:

www.workingbikes.org  They'll repair your bike and sell it in their resale shop, or donate to needy folks.

Business and household items:

www.ExcessAccess.com online service matches donations with wish lists of nonprofits that can provide pickup.

www.goodwill.org Goodwill sells your items.  85% of profits fund job training and other career services.

www.salvationarmyusa.org 100% of store profits fund substance abuse rehab centers

www.Throwplace.com you list excess possessions you are willing to donate on this site.  Others respond that they will reuse, refurbish or recycle.

Paint:

http://ec.dupageco.org/solidwaste/paintrecbroch.html  in DuPage County