Rehoboth Elementary students continue recycling push

After delivering their posters promoting recycling and pollution prevention to city officials a week earlier, Rehoboth Elementary fifth-graders decorated the city’s protective outdoor dining barriers with their works of art June 17.

Teacher Jacquie Kisiel said students spent the last month of the school year learning about the earth, the local water supply and how to prevent pollution through recycling.

“We had so much fun putting up the posters on the barricades,” Kisiel said. “A couple of people stopped to talk with us about our recycling project. Some asked if there were any recycling bins around town in which to dispose of plastic water bottles. We explained that although they are not available yet downtown, we hope that will be our next step.”

Rehoboth Beach Commissioner Richard Byrne, who chairs the city’s environmental committee, accompanied students on their task and said posters will remain on the barriers as long as the weather allows.