Portsmouth School a Winner

Outlet: Inside Business

For 19 years, students from across the country in communities that host the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy plants work to identify an environmental challenge in their community and develop a long-term solution. Each spring the students travel to Florida for an environmental symposium. This year Williams E. Waters Middle School in Portsmouth was among the 15 middle schools whose students traveled to Sunrise, Fla., to showcase their work for judges. The Portsmouth students won the award for the Best Ecosystem Protection Project with their partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to implement an oyster-shell recycling program to salvage shells that would otherwise end us in the landfill.