Ivy Creek’s Recycling Tree

Ivy Creek Elementary put up a Recycling Tree and have made over $100 in just one month!

Way to go Ivy Creek!

Carbon Footprints

At St. Phillip the Apostle School, students are learning about the impact their actions have on our planet by learning about their Carbon Footprints. As a fun reminder to recycle and reuse, each student that brings in an item to recycle with CFK, like a cell phone or a laptop, is given a “footprint” on which they can write their name and put up on the wall. The footprints paper the school hallways and remind everyone how important it is to recycle!

here are some of the students posing with their footprints:

The bags are part of a reusable bag program that encourages students and families to use reusable grocery bags instead of plastic ones. Way to Go Green St. Phillip’s!

Stuff we DO and DON’T accept

Maybe YOU are in the know, and never send in items that we do not accept, but for everyone else, here are some stand-out classics that we just can’t recycle!

TONER BOTTLES

 

PRINTER RIBBONS

So make sure and pull these items out of your boxes to maximize the value of your shipment!

Send in these items to help you bring in the $$BIG BUCKS$$!

NEW CELL PHONES! The newer the phone, the more it is worth!

LAPTOPS! Laptops are one of our biggest earners!

If you have any questions about what we take vs. what we don’t take, or which items are worth more, visit our website at www.CFKToday.com!

CFK VIDEO CONTEST!!

Here is a great way for you to earn some serious cash: make a video promoting CFK and enter it in the CFK Video Contest! We are offering the largest prize in CFK history, the first place winner will receive $500!

Put together a video that meets our CFK VIDEO GUIDELINES and either post it to youtube.com and send us a link, or send it to us and we will post it for you. The video with the most views by April 22nd will win $500!

Your video must be approved by your school’s contact person, meet the specified CFK Guidelines, and totally rock to be eligible for the prize. Also, you must have sent in at least one shipment in the past year to be eligible.

The sooner you get your video posted, the more time you have to accumulate views, the better your chances of winning the grand prize! So get your cast and crew together and start filming today, and may the best video win!

Aaaaaand… ACTION!

For more information, visit our website at www.cartridgesforkids.com, e-mail us at videos@cartridgesforkids.com, or call toll-free at 800-420-0235.

Who doesn’t love free pizza?

Brenda, the contact at Loganville Elementary, knows just what it takes to get students to recycle… free pizza! The class that brought in the most recyclable items at the end of the contest won a free medium pizza from a local pizza shop.  Now that’s motivation!

so head over to your local Papa Johns, Dominos, or Black Jack Pizza and see if they would be willing to sponsor your recycling efforts, it never hurts to ask!

Great job Loganville, keep up the good work!

A Christmas Contest

Will Santa bring you a new cell phone this Christmas? If he does, be sure you recycle the old one with Cartridges for Kids! We will automatically give your school a $50 bonus check if you collect $200 worth of materials, or 100 or more cell phones. Now isn’t that simple?

Call us at 800-420-0235 and let us know the date you plan to start collecting, and take full advantage of all the new Chocolates, Slvrs and iPhones everyone picks up for the holidays. Start your contest or collection drive in January 2009!

Beaver Brook’s Recycling Tree

Beaver Brook tried a slightly different spin on their tree: rather than dedicating a leaf to each student or each item, each week Beaver Brook’s program director tallied each class’ contributions and wrote the total on a leaf, which was then allowed to “fall” to the foot of the tree so students could see which classes earned the most points.

Great job Beaver Brook, for recycling, and for coming up with a fun and creative way to display your program’s success with your recycling tree!

Last Green Gift Idea

Gotten used to your twice-a-week green gift fix?  Still need help finding green products to invest in?  Go online and pick up this book-The Lazy Environmentalist by Josh Dorfman.  This book offers a new approach to environmentalism–recognizing that most of us will not chain ourselves to a tree or indulge in a purely macrobiotic diet.  Josh Dorfman offers chic, stylish ways to shop green without sacrificing your fashion sense, or your wallet.  We like his approach because he tries to “make it so totally easy, fun, and attractive to ‘do the right thing’…” that people will want to “do it every time.”  Check out his website for more info.  His next installment, The Lazy Environmentalist on a Budget will be out in 2009!

Green Garbage Gift Idea

Ok, so far we’ve inundated you with pretty-looking green gifts to give this holiday season.  Time to get down and dirty…with compost, that is.  While this might not be the best gift for the “hopeless romantic” in your life, it’s guaranteed to be a good gift for that budding environmentalist. 

This compost starter kit gives you everything you need to get your composting on.  It includes a carrier to collect kitchen scraps and cart them out to your outside bin, charcoal filters, one pound of starter compost for oustide, a bottle of compost maker to help convert all those orange peels to nutrient-rich dirt, and a thermometer to help figure out when that pile is ready to use in your garden.

Need a creative gift idea for the neighborhood gardening lady that spends hours outside?  Or what about the little boy on your Christmas list that already loves to play in dirt?  This composting set would be great for them both.  Click here to go grab one, and get your hands dirty this year in the name of helping the planet!

Check back on Wednesday for another great green gift idea!

Recycling Trees are all the Rage!

Just look at Foothills Elementary’s tree!

Nice job Foothills!

Try a festive tree, decorate with lights, ornaments or icicles. It could be a palm tree with long fronds and coconuts. Get creative and remember to keep sending us all your wonderful pictures for a chance to be featured here, on our Cartridges for Kids blog!

So what are you waiting for? Plant a recycling tree today!