Blue Bins, at Your Shins
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April 19, 2010
Filed under Top Stories
By Connor Sadowski
The Como Park regular environmental class is in charge of recycling at the school. But once some random student comes into your classroom where does he go? Where does that blue bin go? Where does that piece of paper you no longer deemed important enough to be kept in your backpack go?
Mr. Lucas’s 7/8 hour environmental class makes their rounds every Thursday doing a job many take for granted. The class begins this job by leaving the class en mass and roaming towards the lunch room stairs to grab what some may view as a metal frame with wooden slats on top, a handle, and four wheels on the bottom. This is also known as a cart. With this apparatus they patrol the halls moving from room to room gathering rather oddly shaped blue containment units, a.k.a. recycling bins.
These containers are usually filled to the brim with white tree by-products with lines of graphite scrawled on them in some form of written language of which nation none can be certain.
The workers then stack these receptacles one on top of the other until the transportation device can hold no more. They then roll these units to a large brownish green shaped metal contraption with a moveable barrier to separate the contents from the open air for some strange purpose of which can not be decrypted. Once the strange blue containers have been emptied of their “waste” they are then returned from whence they came, and the process is repeated by other small wandering bands of adolescents until all odd shaped blue bins across the school have been emptied of their prior contaminants.
A slight variation to this process is the involvement of a metal box connected to a pulley system seemingly located within a wall which (as I have been told) enables the transportation of not only objects but people as well to another flat piece of flooring tile at an elevated or subterranean level from their own. This enables them to gather more pressed tree bits to deposit in the shack sized hunk of metal existing behind the building through which over one thousand living persons receive their primary form of education. Once that all has been said and accomplished, the often-mistaken-for-a-unit-of-transportation object with the four circular shaped rubber coated items attached to the bottom is placed back at its resting place until the next being decides upon interacting with it. Once their duties are accomplished the herd migrates back to their normal location for that time of day, to clean their five fingered appendages and rid them of unwanted bacteria obtained through handling unclean materials. The day then continues on as normal for these individuals as if they had never tampered with dead chunks of massacred trees. That in essence is how Como Park handles their recyclables.
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