Every Wednesday at 3:15 p.m., the Tracy High School Earth Club meets in room E101 to figure out ways to make the world better a little at a time.

One way the students in Earth Club contribute to the efforts is recycling the home football games at Wayne Schneider Stadium.

On Friday, before each home game, student volunteers take a cart filled with x-frames to the football field. Each frame is set up with a plastic bag, a blue lid, and a sign reminding game attendees that only cans, bottles, and glass belong in the bins.

After the football game, the same volunteers, “meet by the cart, then after that we put on gloves, we sort through the stands, and put stuff that can be recycled in bags to be sorted,” a sophomore volunteer said.

Volunteers, led by Earth Club President senior Elizabeth McIntyre, and club advisor Dean Reese, then take the large bags of recyclables to a dirt area next to the field where they dump out the leftover water and soda from the bottles and cans and sort the bags into cans, bottles, glass, and garbage.

After processing, the recycling money goes to the Tracy High School Earth Club, the Tracy High School Science Department, and the Tracy High School Helping Hands program.