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"It's a great way to raise money for special projects and events," said Silas Griffin, a social studies and history teacher at CAS.
Throughout the year, Silas and the students gather the used inkjet cartridges and laser toners from schools.
The items are then shipped to Cartridges for Kids, a company that takes the empty cartridges in exchange for cash.
Griffin said he and his students collect a few hundred dollars a year through the program. Griffin has been doing the cartridge recycling program at CAS for the last four years.
Before that, he coordinated the program at the University of Arizona South for two years and at Sarah Marley Elementary School for another two years.
"But what is important about the program is that it teaches the students a sense of community service," Griffin said.
For Griffin, the program helps the students appreciate the community by giving back through recycling.
On a practical level, it also helps keep the cartridges out of the landfill. Schools and business can easily generate millions of pounds of waste and garbage through the cartridges.
"If we can raise money and ease the burden on the land fills, I think we're doing pretty good," Griffin said.
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