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Students develop recycling program for Ill. prison
By chicagotribune.com
Published: 11/24/2009

PONTIAC, Ill. - A high school ecology class has helped to make a central Illinois prison a little greener.

Pontiac Township High School teacher Paul Ritter says 14 of his students developed a recycling program that began last week at the Pontiac Correctional Center.

Ritter says prison staff approached him to come up with a recycling plan after realizing that more than 14,000 plastic bottles each month were being thrown away at the facility.

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