I am a student at  South Orange Middle School. The South Orange Maplewood school district does not have recycling which is a big problem because schools use so much paper.  The New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) provides grants to schools with recycling. Part of the reason we don't already have recycling is because there is a cost to it; the grants provided can be up to $10,000 sometimes in smaller increments. New Jersey state law says that schools must have recycling, it's a requirement, the school could get sued for not having recycling. I have been working for a couple years at finding a temporary solution by recycling the papers myself at South Orange Middle School. I started a program called SCRAPP, School Classroom Recycling Activism Paper Project, we put recycling bins in classrooms and took the recycled paper home so that it wouldn't get thrown out. This didn't work for various reasons so now, I am facing the problem head on. South Mountain Elementary school just got a composting program, step up and help make the South Orange Middle School more environmentally friendly. Every month, there is a school board meeting, I will either be attending the meeting in December or January to discuss this issue, support is greatly appreciated.