During the 2025-2026 school year, Mount Greylock Regional School’s YES Club will continue the fight for composting.

The Mount Greylock YES Club is a student led organization that focuses on a variety of environmental goals. In the past, they have planted trees and grown their own vegetables in the school gardens. Their focus is to educate the school community on environmental issues and work toward change. 

Senior president Emilie Jones claims,“[t]his year, YES Club is working on composting, but it’s really important that we do recycling first. We have to make sure our recycling is going well, so that we prove we are capable of doing more.” Jones explained that the club will work in partnership with “the company Second Chance Composting” and they will be “getting volunteers from the First Congregational Church” in order to make this happen. Jones pointed out that composting at Greylock could be very beneficial for our community because “we are in a really rural area, so composting is really useful for the various farms we have around our towns.” She went on to explain how recycling is equally as important in keeping “our parks from being dirty.”

According to Jones, the YES Club is currently trying to “educate everyone around the school, and teach them that recycling isn’t that hard.” Furthermore, she explained that they have started an Instagram page (y.e.s._mg) to spread awareness and have gotten better at recycling in the cafeteria.

The YES Club is already enacting positive change within our school with their new push for recycling and composting. It will be exciting to see how it goes and what they will do next.