St. Joe Conway recycler of year

Published August 16, 2019

St. Joseph School in Conway won the Arkansas Recycling Coalition’s 2019 School Recycler of the Year Award. Students recycle paper, aluminum cans and cardboard at the school. They go room to room weekly collecting it. There are cardboard storage bins on campus where that material is placed and recycled by Conway’s Virco Manufacturing Corporation. 

Other students volunteer at the St. Joseph Flea Market where clothing, footwear and various mechanical and electronic equipment is dropped off. If these items are without ample resale value, they’re sent to recycling centers for the disadvantaged or to places where waste can be converted into secondary raw materials. 

School representatives will be officially presented with the award Oct. 1 in Eureka Springs during a luncheon at the ARC’s annual conference and trade show.