Students at Ecker Hill Middle School celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 2025 by cleaning up the school campus. Photo: PCDS
PARK CITY, Utah — Students at Ecker Hill Middle School celebrated Earth Day by rolling up their sleeves and pitching in for the planet.
The school hosted a campus-wide cleanup, with students collecting litter from the grounds and then sorting it into compost, recycling, and trash. Even the gloves and bags used for the project were compostable to reduce plastic waste.
The Park City School District shared the effort on social media, calling it a “small step” with a “big impact” as part of the community’s ongoing commitment to sustainability.
Marina Knight began her career in journalism working for The Stowe Reporter in 2003, where she was a staff writer and later the publication’s Web Editor. She covered the Winter Olympic Games in 2006 and 2010, and has worked as a freelance writer covering outdoor topics as well as art criticism. Most recently, Knight was Editor-in-Chief of SkiRacing.com. She has won multiple awards from the New England Newspaper Association for environmental reporting, feature writing and art criticism. She lives with her family in Park City. In her free time you’ll find her in the mountains