(Chelsea Update would like to thank Shawn Sinacola for the information in this story.)
Chelsea High School won the NexTrex Challenge for the 2021-2022 school year for our school’s size, collecting 3,933 pounds of plastic. The second place school in the size category collected 1,012 pounds.
Part of the announcement reads: “Thank you for participating in the Trex Plastic Film Recycling Challenge for the 2021-2022 school year.
We are so thrilled with this year’s numbers and want your students to know how much we appreciate all of their efforts. With your hard work we were able to keep a total of 323,586 pounds of plastic out of the landfills.”
There were 686 schools registered across the US with a total of 530 schools actively reporting.
Each participating school will be sent an award over the next couple of weeks.
“Thank you to the Chelsea community for all of your support in diverting plastic film from the landfill,” said Shawn Sinacola, advisor for the program.
Chelsea High School will receive a second Trex bench to place around our Memorial Weeping Willow tree.
In addition, “We might be continuing to collect plastic throughout the school year, from now until June, and again Sept-June on a yearly basis. We will make an announcement next week,” Sinacola said.
Additionally, the CHS Arbor Club invites the Chelsea community to join us in planting six new trees, weeding, mulching, and picking up trash in the CHS Alumni Arbor on Saturday, April 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
We especially want to invite CHS Alumni from the classes of 2018, 2019, and 2020 to attend, as we will be replacing their three trees that died during the pandemic when no one was here to take care of them.
