Lincoln Middle School introduced a student-designed cafeteria recycling system Monday that could be a model for reducing waste throughout Portland schools.
Superintendent Jim Morse joined students, school staff, parents and others at the school to kick off the pilot program.
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Students created a separation system for recycling paper-based lunch trays, milk cartons and other items.
The recycling program is a joint effort by the school district, Huhtamaki Packaging of Waterville, which donated several thousand trays made of recycled paper, and the KIDS Consortium of Auburn, which gave a $750 Green School grant for the project.
The idea of replacing the old trays with recyclable ones arose from a service-learning project at Lyman Moore Middle School.
Robert Lindsay, a science teacher at Lincoln, worked with his seventh-graders to design the recycling program.
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