Lufkin was recently recognized by Wake County Environmental Services for its recycling program. During the 2008-09 school year, Lufkin recycled the most pounds of paper per student of any year-round middle school: 17.4 pounds per student, for a total of 19,815 pounds of recycled paper! In addition, through our "Lufkin Less Paper" initiative last year, which focused on reducing the overall amount of paper used throughout the school, Lufkin's paper usage was decreased by 13%. Schools tend to use a lot of paper over the course of a year, but we are working at Lufkin to reduce our overall paper usage, and to recycle the paper we do use. Congratulations to our staff and students for their work in this area!