UC High’s Go Green Club, headed by Club President Allison Turley, Vice President Kennedy Selleck and Adviser and BioMed Teacher Leslie Wymer, distributed reusable water bottles to UC students during the second week of school to promote environmentalism.

Around ten years ago, when Wymer began working at UC High, she noticed that most of the school’s plastic was not being recycled. She wanted to take action. Wymer said, “We won two years in a row for the most consecutive waste diversion [reducing trash going to landfills] of any high school in the district.”

Although it has been universally understood to significantly help the environment, plastic recycling is yet to be implemented by all citizens. “Say no to single-use plastic,” said Wymer. This is her most important message, one that she wishes not only her club members to understand, but the rest of the students and faculty on campus as well.

It took one year for this project to become a reality. Taking up a lot of time, effort, and motivation, she came up with the idea of a double-vacuumed sealed water bottle that is neither too big nor too small for everyday use.

   With 2,000 dollars earned from the Educate [University City Foundation for Public Schools] program, they decided to create these water bottles. By calling multiple companies, finding a design, and figuring out how they were going to distribute them, Wymer, Turley, and Selleck were able to put these water bottles to use. 700 bottles were successfully distributed around campus, with only around 60 leftover.