Contact: Tammy Lane • First Posted: Friday, December 2, 2011

Lexington students gathered up 243,776 aluminum beverage cans during this year’s Cans for Cash recycling contest. In terms of weight, it totaled 7,618 pounds – 32 percent more than collected in 2010.

Veterans Park Elementary earned a $1,000 prize for recycling the most cans per student in the 600+ size category. Cardinal Valley, Meadowthorpe and Wellington each received $600 for recycling the most cans regardless of school size. Paul Laurence Dunbar High got $300 after tying with a private school.

The winners were recognized Dec. 1 at a Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council meeting.

LFUCG’s Division of Waste Management, Wise Recycling, Baker Iron and Metal, and Phinix LLC contributed the monetary prizes. The schools were also paid by the pound for the cans they recycled through Wise and Baker.

Twenty-six Fayette County schools participated in October as usual, though this year’s nationwide contest was moved to spring 2012. Those in FCPS earning certificates were Ashland, Athens-Chilesburg, Cassidy, Deep Springs, Dixie, Rosa Parks and Russell Cave elementaries; Crawford, Leestown, Morton and Tates Creek middle schools; Henry Clay High School; Locust Trace AgriScience Farm; the Family Care Center; and the Lexington Day Treatment Center.

Cans for Cash is sponsored by the United States Conference of Mayors, Novelis Corp. (a world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling) and Keep America Beautiful Inc. LFUCG’s Bluegrass Partnership for a Green Community is the organizer for Lexington, and Bluegrass PRIDE handles school registrations. For more information, call Darby Estes at (866) 222-1648.

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