Environmental Science Students Implement School-Wide Recycling Program.  What was the last thing you did to make life better for the rest of the world?  What can you do to help decrease the incredible amount of waste that we produce every single day?  Why don’t we have a program in place that helps us to do these things, when it seems so easy? These are questions that the students of Mr. Wheat’s two environmental science classes asked amongst themselves at the beginning of the school year.   Throughout the semester each class had grown to understand and recognize the way humans can impact the planet negatively.  They explored some very simple and effective ways that this negative impact can be lessened and decided it was high time we made some changes at B.A.S.C.S. We noticed that not everyone in the building was recycling—a practice that helps decrease landfill waste and can save our school money.  Under the guidance of Mr. Wheat students researched our current recycling program and decided that we could make a major improvement by having recycling bins in each classroom.  With their idea, they joined together and petitioned the administration to purchase recycling bins for the entire school.    The administration answered their call and the students received a grant that was used to purchase 100 bins to be placed in every classroom.  Later, Isaac Burns designed a logo for the project which was made into a stencil.  Many students such as Brittany Mack, Marcel Hutcherson, Claudio Olympio, Rodney Carmichael, Jamella Washington and JaQuan Combs helped to hand paint each bin with our new logo.  As the first class was moving into a new semester, the current environmental science class picked up where the previous had left off and delivered bins to each classroom in the building and continues to empty them on a weekly basis. The project rollout was a success and since then we have seen much more school wide interest and involvement in recycling.  Students from the class have realized that if you want to see a change you can take the steps to make it happen.  What will be their next project?  Currently they are working on applying for a grant from Pepsi to improve decrease waste in the cafeteria.  Best of luck to these students in their future endeavors.