TORONTO -- Toronto High School's National Junior Honor Society have organized the Green Thumb Club as a service project.

The National Junior Honor Society, for seventh- and eighth-graders, will be working with Jefferson County Recycling and Litter Prevention to "keep it clean."

The National Junior Honor Society members are distributing recycle boxes in the hallways and classrooms of the school. Every week the NJHS members collect the paper items in the boxes for recycling.

They sort the papers to make sure they are acceptable for recycling as determined by the Jefferson County Recycling and Litter Prevention and work to educate other students and staff by posting the "unacceptable" materials on the recycle boxes.

Items with food, beverage or chemical residue on them are unacceptable as are photographs, carbon paper, lumber, milk cartons, used pizza boxes, used paper plates, and used napkins, paper towels and tissues.

Money generated by the recycling effort is used for other service projects including donating to needy organizations or for gifts for residents of the Maplewood Manor in Toronto.