Free newspaper recycling will help high school students find adventure
The Muskegon area has a new way to help the environment through newspaper recycling while also helping adventurous students.
MUSKEGON (Scrap Monster): The Muskegon area has a new way to help the environment through newspaper recycling while also helping adventurous students.
Newspapers and phone books can be dropped off for recycling at the corner of Norton Avenue and McCracken Street in Norton Shores. In return, a student Adventure Club will receive money for its activities that range from hiking to bowling.
The fundraising opportunity is offered through Nu-Wool Insulation, which uses the recycled material for spray-in insulation and spray grass seed with mulch, said Shelly Brower, a Mona Shores High School teacher who also is the adviser for the Adventure Club.
Newspapers and phone books – but not other types of paper such as magazines – will be collected until around Dec. 20. If the community is able to fill the trailer, then the club can continue offering the recycling option, Brower said.
The trailer is parked in the parking lot of the former Mona Shores Administration Building.
Nu-Wool will pay $400 to the club for each trailer-full of recyclable material. That money will be used to support club members and their pursuit of adventure.
“We didn’t want to sell anything,” Brower said of the club’s fundraising efforts.
The Adventure Club is led by the approximately 18 student members who currently are from Spring Lake and Mona Shores high schools. The students meet monthly at the Grand Traverse Pie Company to decide what adventure to pursue next.
About every other month they go on the adventures that have included rock-wall climbing, camping, downhill skiing, luging, hiking and scuba diving, Brower said.
“It’s a very diverse mixture of students, from kids you might consider at risk to the kids who are academic straight A’s to kids who are in sports to kids who are in band to kids who do nothing else but this,” Brower said.
The club is open to all high schools, she said. Likewise, the newspaper recycling is open to all area residents – not just those in Norton Shores.
Club members have been taking care of the truck, sorting through papers to make sure they are acceptable. If the community fills the trailer, the students could continue earning between $400 and $600 every couple of months, Brower said.
If the trailer isn’t filled by Dec. 20, it will be removed, she said.
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