Frosh fundraise for their future with E-recycling
January 25, 2010 • written by Jenae Galang
When it comes to making money, minors always find a simple solution: collecting empty water bottles, receiving a mere 5¢ for every bottle recycled. Frosh Council got creative and up the ante by upgrading from bottles to old Moreau’s old TVs, earning 15¢ per pound.
On Saturday, January 30th, Frosh Council and their moderators threw an e-recycling party in Moreau’s Senior Lot from 9am-1pm, donating Moreau’s antiquated TVs and other student-donated electronics to E-recycling of California.
“Mr. Wilder said nothing was being done with Moreau’s old TVs,” said freshman class president Bryan Quibol, “so we saw it as an opportunity to raise money for events in the future.”
Both frosh council and their moderators, Phil Wilder and Petar Zegura, worked hard to spread word of their e-recycling event. The information is on Moreau’s website and the marquee at the front of the school. Council has created posters, flyers, which they have handed out, at Moreau and their old elementary schools, and even a Facebook event called the “E-Recycling Event – by Recycling of California.”
Many people gave away their old and unused electronics. Some hoped their good deed would be repaid with an upgrade, while others just wanted to be “green” and ensure their old hunk of junk is disposed of properly.
Rather than shipping the donated junk to third world countries for a profit like some recycling companies, the E-recycling of California company has a whole page on its website dedicated to showing exactly what happens to their donated waste. Circuit boards are refined, turned into chunks of copper, and reused in pluming, telephone wiring, and circuit boards. Metals are reused as car parts, new electronics, and paper clips. The glass of a computer screen is cleaned and lead removed and refined in order to make new Cathode Ray Tubes. And the plastic is melted down and used for injection molding, where it is turned into slides, park benches, and etc.
Before e-recycling had been an option, no one knew what to do with all of these old TVs.
“Some [TVs] were already given to an elementary school [St. Mary’s of Arcata],” frosh moderator Petar Zegura said.
Moreau’s other TVs rendered useless as administrators continued to look for a way to put them to good use. Mr. Wilder couldn’t think of any better use than giving the TVs to a company willing to pay them for tons of junk. Having done work with this company a few years back in order to raise money for the Cross Country team’s trip to Rhode Island, Wilder was familiar with how much money 15¢ per pound could add up to.
A majority of the money raised will be going towards the class of 2013, but the rest of it will help pay for the class shirts that weren’t sold during 2009 Spirit Week.
“I think we should save more instead of spending it all,” freshman senator Stephanie Chen said. “Hopefully we can spend a little more on decorations and make our class’s Spirit Week better.”
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