Angela White's students at James River Day School are collecting CDs for the SBC drive.

Local Fourth Graders Collect CDs for SBC Recycling Drive

SUZANNE RAMSEY
College relations staff writer

A poster in the hallway raises awareness.


The kids decorated a box for the drive.

Fourth graders at Lynchburg’s James River Day School have joined forces with Sweet Briar College to save the world one CD at a time. The students are collecting used CDs for a recycling drive started in August by Sweet Briar’s academic computing office.

The fourth graders are in science classes taught by Angela White, wife of College Chaplain Adam White. On Oct. 17, they started a section on the environment and launched the used CD drive. The next morning, there were five CDs in the brightly decorated collection box.

White said the project will make environmentalism hit closer to home. “A lot of times environmental stuff is ‘out there’ and students get mad at people for littering,” she said, adding the project will teach “personal responsibility.”

So far, it seems to be working.

“You should recycle them some they won’t get burned and, and if you recycle them they can be used as other things,” Isabel Caprise said. “[A CD] has chemicals in it, so when it burns the chemicals go into the air.”

Preston Williams agreed, saying CDs should not be burned and “pollute the air.”

Classmate and budding environmentalist Todd Morcom said CDs should be recycled so “the ozone layer won’t mess up to cause global warming.”

White, who is taking a “Science and Math by Inquiry” in Sweet Briar’s graduate program this fall, said living on Elijah Road has definitely had its benefits. “Through that program I’ve received materials and books and lots of great ideas,” she said. “It’s pretty awesome to be a science teacher living at Sweet Briar.”

For more information on the CD recycling drive, contact Tom Marcais at tmarcais@sbc.edu or 381-6388.