Leon County (county that the state capital, Tallahassee is in)in the state of Florida cut funding for school recycling around ten years ago, calling it a "lost cause". In the summer of 2006, I assembled a team to paint aluminum cans that would be used for recycling at my high school (Lincoln). Those were rejected by the principal because they were "unregulated". Because of that, our group raised around $1,000 for bins to put around the outside of the school. Unfortunately enough, that group disbanded and I was left to pick trash out of the 12 bins on a weekly basis.