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Princeton Day School’s “The Great GiveAway” Expands to Entire School and Benefits HomeFront

Princeton – The Princeton Day School Upper School Community Council has once again organized a recycling program to benefit HomeFront (https://www.homefrontnj.org/). “The Great GiveAway,” which launches Tuesday, May 31, coincides with the end of school and the cleaning out of lockers. This year, all three divisions of PDS will participate. Students are invited to sort and set aside usable school supplies that might previously have been thrown out. Labeled bins are situated in all areas of the school for the collection of gently used pens, pencils, crayons, general school supplies, notebooks, books, clothing and sports equipment. Students will salvage the unused portions of notebooks, recycling the paper that has been used.

Last year, Upper School and Middle School students provided two carloads of school supplies to HomeFront, a Trenton-based nonprofit agency serving Mercer County homeless families. With the additional participation of the Lower School this year, the PDS Community Council expects even greater results for HomeFront. Lower School students are publicizing the event with handmade posters, and teachers have held off on desk and classroom cleaning until the kickoff of the event.

In addition to the collection of supplies for HomeFront, The Great GiveAway facilitates the recycling of massive amounts of used paper. Last year, The Community Council recycled more than 1000 pounds of paper during the cleanup week. Waste reduction is a key part of Princeton Day School’s ongoing sustainability initiative. Other steps taken by the school to minimize waste are the addition of recycling/waste stations in the cafeterias, the composting of all food waste, the  

recycling of all florescent bulbs and the movement of most publications from paper to electronic. Princeton Day School is a founding member of OASIS (Organizing Action on Sustainability in Schools), a local consortium of 17 local schools working to become more sustainable campuses, and a member of the Green School Alliance.

Princeton Day School is an independent, coeducational school educating students from
Pre-Kindergarten – Grade 12.