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Gainesville students make tree to recycle electronics
Container will help keep chemicals in phones from fouling environment
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Two Gainesville High students from the Family Career and Community Leaders of America are competing in the STAR “environmental ambassador” event. The two juniors built a cardboard tree complete with a phone collection box in the trunk in order to raise awareness about E-waste. They’re collecting old, broken or out-of-date electronics and providing informational seminars to homeroom classes.
While it might seem a broken electronic device has nowhere to go but the trash, two local high school students have an environmentally friendly way to dispose of “E-waste.” Now they want the community to use it. Sara Brown and Iridian Pacheco, both juniors at Gainesville High School, have built an E-waste recycling container at the school.