About Us
History:
Founded in January of 2007 as a result of planning and recruiting fourth months prior, the Mission Recycling Committee (MRC) serves the 900+ students of Mission High School in San Francisco. Ten dedicated student leaders founded this committee and ever since, over 15 committee members have worked to secure recycling bins in every classroom and hallway. Collecting recyclables weekly, MRC takes the money redeemed by bottles on supplies, funding for school field trips, and much more.
The idea for the Mission Recycling Committee originated from Terence. As a junior at Mission High School, he saw that the school trash cans spawned a lot of fruit flies and when he peered into them, he saw a lot of recyclables. Terence rallied around his high school in October and got ten other passionate members onto his team. With a committee, the Mission Recycling Committee began their impact by securing one blue recycling bin in every school classroom.
Mission:
Our mission is to implement a sustainable youth-led recycling system in Mission High School, encourage students to recycle at home, and actively volunteer in the community to help the enviornment.
Philosophy:
The Mission Recycling Committee believes that students do not recycle as much as possible due to the lack of containers around school. Our committed members think of creative ways to make recycling as easy as possible for students at school.
Each classroom now has a recycling bin and the next step is to educate and involve the students so that recycling becomes a habit. We believe that each student should also volunteer in the community with local enviornmental organizations to continue helping the environment.
We also keep track on how much recyclables we collected.