Students at South Butler Intermediate Elementary School are saving the world, 30,000 cans at a time. Students Sarah Steedle, center, Tyler Thrower at left and their classmates get ready to toss aluminum cans onto a truck Monday that will haul them to a nearby recycling center. Students started collecting the cans March 20. Each student was challenged to collect 25 cans - the total number of years school principal Thomas Tibbott has worked for the South Butler School District - for a school total of 10,000 cans. The students far exceeded that amount by collecting 36,041 cans. They collected the cans as part of an Earth Day celebration at the school. The cans weighed 1,080 pounds and generated $648 in cash when recycled. The money collected from recycling the cans was donated to the Butler County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity.