St. Andrews Consolidated School is an elementary school with 250 students located in St. Andrews just out side of Antigonish. For the past few years, St. Andrews has had a Green Team of Grade Six students who collect and sort waste materials from classrooms. Through these efforts, students at St. Andrews have been able to reduce the amount of garbage that goes to the landfill by recycling 4 large bags of recyclables and composting 20 litres of organic material per week.

Recycling does not stop here for St. Andrews. Outdated library books and magazines are recycled through a Take-a-Book home program where students can take discards home for the whole family to read. The school has long been a trendsetter, even trying to set fashion trends by rewarding the class with the most students who sported recycled clothing during Environment Week.

Annette Daemen, teacher and coordinator for the school’s green team and two of the green team members, Meghan MacNeil and Whitney Penny, accepted the RRFB Nova Scotia Mobius Environmental Award for School of the Year on behalf of St. Andrews Consolidated Elementary School.