Photo gallery: Global Youth Strike for Climate
March 27, 2019
The youth of St. Louis gathered around the Old Courthouse Friday March 15, joining millions of others around the world to protest the government's lack of concern for the environment. The strike was originally organized by Swedish Climate Activist and Nobel Prize nominee Greta Thunberg and spread to...
Issues: Threats to the ocean
Sarah Nash, Grace Carroll, and Tatum Shore-Fitzgerald
October 26, 2018
In this art spread, TKC art staffers aimed to highlight various issues surrounding our world's oceans. Threats to marine life include waste pollution, ocean acidity, oil spills and more....
Ways to be environmentally friendly
Lydia Cohen, web staff
October 5, 2018
Students file into room SC 106 each day with the hopes of doing the little bit they can to help improve KHS’ impact upon the Earth. In the environmental sustainability class, students attempt to reduce trash, waste and the carbon footprint left by the school. “[Being environmentally friendly] is impor...
Chinese regulations impact American recycling
Maddie Meyers, web managing editor
September 20, 2018
Your shirt. Your shoes. Your phone. Chances are, all of these items were made in China. America even relies on China for its recycling needs. But that is about to change. According to David Biderman, Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) executive director, America exports about one third of its recycling, and most of that goes to China because America d...
The ripple effect
Ally Ortmann, features + in depth editor
September 19, 2018
The City of Kirkwood introduced the possibility of suspending their curbside, single-stream recycling program due to increased contamination of loads being sent to China. However, due to opposition from the community, city officials announced they would continue to fund curbside pick up for the next 6...
Earth Day in Kirkwood
Zack Deutschmann, Writer
May 21, 2018
Imagine a world where the sky is always grey and the grass is always a dark brown. Imagine never having sunshine that brings warmth inside your house. Imagine never getting to breathe the clean air and feeling refreshed after each breath. All around the world, people celebrated the 48th Earth Day, on Sunday, April 22. Earth Day...
The Environment Sucks and Why You Should be Killing It
Jack Bugee, opinions writer
April 25, 2018
I’ve been meaning to get something off my chest for a while. Seeing everybody talking about saving the environment has started to really grind my gears. It’s insane how far some go to protect something so fleeting. Since the human race has been beating rocks together we’ve been on a conquest to...
Trash can’t
Charlotte Heinrich, features writer
March 16, 2018
Some would say the “recycling bin” of KHS seems to be half full. I would ask, is the recycling even being recycled? On a dreary Monday night this January, a custodian in the history building openly dumped the contents of the little blue recycling bin into the gray landfill on wheels. She said...
Trash can
Will Drury, Parsnip Editor
February 12, 2018
Christmas came late for KHS students this year. Just a few weeks ago, every rosy-cheeked and acne-speckled high schooler was greeted with an overabundance of gifts from KSD, including a brand new laptop, case and charger wrapped up in a neat cardboard box and plastic wrapping. While most children greedily...
Let’s talk dirty
Will Drury, Parsnip Editor
February 6, 2018
The day I found an entire, unopened, king-size Kit-Kat bar in the trash was the day I realized we had a problem. After roughly an hour digging through the hazardous waste dump that is KHS’s trash, I found it lying helpless in a puddle of lumpy yogurt and rotting orange peels, discarded by a no-doubt ...
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