What a Waste

were some people who weren’t really taking it as seriously or didn’t really care about it as much.”

As COVID hit, the D.C. trip was canceled for two years. Zellie Olson ‘25 comments, “Everyone [knows] how meaningful [the Holocaust Museum’s] exhibit[s are]. I just feel like it’s such an emotional experience because it shares so much about firsthand experiences within it. I do feel like we missed out.”

Students, faculty weak links in waste management

Faith Zhao | Staff Writer

The trash cans in our school are emptied every single day; three morial out of just World War II as a context and instead make it about any topic within U.S history students felt was worthy of a memorial.”

This change was in part due to the advancement of the eighth grade trip to Washington, D.C. which is now mandatory a school lesson, you’re kind of just seeing it for its impacts, the numbers, the statistics. When you’re going through the museum, it deepened my understanding of what it was actually like.” However, Ivy Besikof ‘23 grew frustrated during her visit to the museum as “there

Molly Seidel ‘24 has a very close relationship with her grandfather, who also has greatly influenced her life.

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“Night” a “memoir by a Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel who not just survived Auschwitz himself and several other camps but has worked all of the rest of his life to resist genocides wherever else they occur in the world,” was removed from the eighth grade curriculum due to COVID, explains Chair of the English Department Rick Cawood times a week, the landfill dumpster gets picked up as well as recycling and compost, which are collected twice a week.

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Ultimately, each load is filled with 12 to 14 more cubic yards of landfill trash, and six to eight cubic yards of recycling and compost, according to Russ Gronlund , Maintenance Lead at Blake for the past 35 years.

Gronlund explains,

Revamping of old and classic items has become very popular because customers often look for familiarity.

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“If there’s [a] mixture in, let’s say the compostable or the recycling, it will all go up in the landfill trash.” Gronlund notices, “Students, especially at breakfast or lunch time, [don’t] pay attention to which one they put their stuff in.”

Years ago, there was a chaperone to watch students dispose of their trash. The trash accumulated then was significantly less than the trash accumulated now.

Jake Vraa , Maintenance Assistant, explains how “the trash build up in the school can be inevitable, if students bring a Starbucks cup everyday or don’t like their food, it’s just how it is.”

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