Fletcher High students set up pop-up recycling drop off site

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A radical of Fletcher High School students took complaint of protecting the situation Sunday by mounting up a impermanent recycling drop-off tract astatine Huffman Boulevard Park. This comes arsenic the city’s curbside pickup for recycling is suspended truthful much workers tin absorption connected existent garbage issues.

The pop-up tract saved people like Hillary Siragusa a travel to 1 of the city’s 15 designated drop-off sites. She says it would person been astatine slightest 10 minutes retired of the way.

“They are doing thing truly great,” Siragusa said. They are providing a work to maine and to our environment. They are taking immoderate responsibility. They saw that determination was a problem, I assume, and stepped successful to supply a solution.”

The radical known arsenic Co2nsequences Incorporated, which is some an enactment astatine their schoolhouse and non-profit, is helping capable the void arsenic curbside pickup successful the River City is connected clasp indefinitely.

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“It shows maine that radical inactive care,” said Grant Tucker, the president and laminitis of Co2nsequences Inc. “I cognize that successful these trying times immoderate much things go important [than recycling].”

Carly Young is the vice president. They accidental they wanted to springiness radical the accidental to assistance the situation and felt the Huffman Boulevard Park country needs different option.

“A lot of the recycling close present is being enactment successful the trash and it’s not good,” Young said.

To debar that for astatine slightest 1 day, these students acceptable up store astatine the park.

They said plans moving guardant see utilizing a motortruck to prime up recycling from people’s houses.

“With climate alteration being specified a contiguous contented successful our nine today, it is important that we retrieve that recycling is 1 of the main beneficial factors successful reducing our clime impact,” Tucker said.

“We thought if radical tin astatine slightest travel and get it to us, we tin spell and driblet it disconnected astatine the recycling spot,” Young said.

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After 2 hours of collecting recycling, the students took everything to Girvin Road Landfill, which is astir 15 minutes away. That is 1 of the 15 drop-off sites the metropolis acceptable up.

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