A recent Instagram post advertised the clothing swap and helped students know about the first-time event.
Out of all the club offerings at Watauga High School, the Sustainability Club is one of the most influential. They conduct river cleanups of the South Fork of the New River. They secured several popular water bottle filling stations for the middle halls of the high school’s three floors, and recently obtained two more.
Continually trying to create new ways of making Watauga High a sustainable school, Sustainability Club has a new event on offer: the clothing drive.
“This is the first clothing drive for Sustainability Club, and we are asking students to donate any unwanted clothes to the donation bin in the Media Center. We will sort through the clothes and have a clothing swap on November 9th,” said Brianna Anderson, a club senior and an Outreach Committee officer. “Students can pay $5 to fill up a tote bag or pay $2 per item. Anyone participating in the swap must donate at least one item of clothing to participate.”
The clothing drive is a new effort by the club to raise funds and provide a new, sustainable practice for the Watauga community.
“All of the proceeds [from the clothing drive] go to our solar PV fund or for new water bottle filling stations,” Anderson explains. “If the clothing drive is a success, I hope the club spreads more awareness so we can raise more money for the club.”
The clothing drive was designed to provide a way for people to get new clothes without buying from big-name stores and driving up harmful, greenhouse-gas-producing manufacturing.
“Though I was unsure how it would turn out, the clothing drive went better than any of us were anticipating, and we already made plans for another one in the spring,” Leila Zwetsloot, a junior and the other officer of the Outreach Committee, says.
The clothing drive was a marked success, garnering around $250 for the Sustainability Club and opening up more opportunities for the club to fund future club events.
According to leadership, the Sustainability Club plans to continue doing clothing drives and releasing newsletters, as well as coming up with new, innovative ways of making Watauga a more resource-friendly, low-cost campus.
The club is in process of constructing a series of solar panels on the campus to keep our energy consumption sustainable and bring it away from gas-powered electricity. If all goes to plan, these solar panels will be installed on the field to the right of the concession stand.
“We also want to do a workshop that's somehow related to holiday waste before winter break,” Zwetsloot says.
The holiday season is considered by some to be the most unsustainable of the year, so the club hopes to encourage people to opt for more eco-friendly wrapping paper or gift-giving.
With the successful clothing drives, popular water bottle filling stations, solar-energy panels, and future workshops, the Sustainability Club has proven itself to be an integral part of Watauga High’s identity, as well as a club that will be helpful for generations of Watauga students in the future.
If you’re interested in joining the Sustainability Club, they meet in Dr. Capazzoli’s room in the 3500 hallway every Thursday morning at 8:00 AM.
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