Kent County, Delaware, students weigh in on recycled art

The (Delaware) Dover Post reports the Capital School District hosted a Recycled Art Contest for students to create original art from recyclables.

Winners were honored July 19, 2016, at the district’s Board of Education meeting with signed certificates from the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) and with free park passes from the Delaware Department of Parks and Recreation. 

“It’s all about social consciousness,” said Dover High School English teacher Lane Carter, who came up with the idea for the contest, the Dover Post reports. “If we don’t recycle [objects] or use them again, they are just going to go into a place where it might hurt the environment.”

The contest works in tandem with a proposal by Jackie Howard of DNREC’s Solid and Waste Management division to increase recycling in schools. In addition, Carter hopes to install a recycling container in every classroom.

“People want it to be convenient, so you have to make it convenient by having [recycling] where people are,” Howard told the newspaper. “It’s all part of a bigger picture of getting everybody on board to recycle and understanding ‘Hey, I empty my recycling three times a week, and I only empty my trash once.’”