TJ Environmental Science Club

Americans' plastic recycling is dumped in landfills, investigation shows Consumers’ efforts to be eco-friendly go to waste as many communities find themselves with nowhere to send their refuse

Biodegradable Coffee Cups Embedded With Seeds Grow Into Trees When Thrown Away A creative company in California called Reduce. Reuse. Grow has designed a coffee cup that is not only biodegradable, but even has seeds in its walls so that it can be planted and grown! The cups, which are currently part of a Kickstarter campaign, will have seeds embedded in their walls based on th...

Results of the officer elections last week:
President: Angeli Mittal
Vice President: Shri Ramanujam
Treasurer: Steven Le
Chief Researcher: Lucas Bronstein
Publicist: Kirvani Buddhiraju

Congratulations to our ESC officers for 2019-2020. If you ran for a position and didn't win, don't be discouraged. There will be plenty of leadership opportunities in this club next year, especially as we start up our research projects next fall.

After hearing all of your speeches last week, Ally and I are so proud of how passionate you all are about environmental conservation and, even though we won't be around for it, we have high, high hopes (lol) for what you all will accomplish in the future.

If you haven’t voted yet, please do so soon. Voting closes at 11:59 PM and a few eligible people haven’t voted yet. (Reminder: you must have attended 5 meetings and can’t be a senior)

This is the last week to bring in empty plastic bottles if you have any! Rather than throw them in the recycling bin, bring them to Mr. Kauffman in room 53 (chem commons) at any time until May 17th for Environmental Science Club. Every bottle is greatly appreciated! :)

Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed water bottles for our project for Techstrav so far! A special thank you to Steven Le, Manu Bulusu, Natalie Wu, Elena Rangelov, Philip Lu, Curtis Ji, Chris Kan, Minwu Kim, Jane Wang, and Kirvani Buddhiraju for donations for extra supplies!