During the second half of the 2025–2026 school year, Mount Greylock’s Youth Environmental Squad (YES) club is trying hard to make a difference in Mount Greylock Regional School’s environmental impact through new composting initiatives.
An environmentally centered, student led organization, YES club’s main focus is bringing environmental change. This year, as well as in past years, the club has been trying to bring composting to Mount Greylock. Despite having made a lot of progress, their main challenge is to, in the words of president Emilie Jones, “prove that we are capable of doing it.” They are doing this through trying to recycle more in order to get permission to take the next step. According to Jones, at Mount Greylock, “people throw spoons and other things into the trash.” This is why permission was not yet granted to begin composting, something that would be beneficial to our community, as it “is basically recycling food back into the Earth,” allowing for a cycle of growth.
According to Jones, YES club is “hoping [to start composting] by the end of this school year,” although “it’s really up to the rest of the school committee.”
Mount Greylock Regional School’s YES club has been making our school a better, greener school through every project they do. And when composting becomes part of Mount Greylock, we will only get more environmentally friendly.
