Hopefully you’re doing something to celebrate Earth Day, thinking about Earth Day, spreading the word about Earth Day, etc. Earth Day is a great time to really get people thinking about recycling. Hopefully, since they’ve begun thinking about recycling they’ll begin to act. The result will hopefully mean a lot more recycling for your school or organization which in turn means more $$$$, bucks, moolah for you as well.
In case you were curious, we’ve totalled up the amount of money we’ve helped schools and organizations raise since our inception. The amount topped $12,000,000.00 dollars! In 2007 alone our schools and organizations raised $1.6 million. Millions of dollars just for recycling. Mother Earth is smiling.
Take a look at the video below. It’s from 2007 but the message still applies.
Thought provoking… at least the end of it is. Definitely something more to think about on a daily basis. Now, I’m assuming that once she replaces the cartridge, the old one got recycled.
19 days and counting. Below you’ll find some excellent reading for the young ones. Heck, even if you’re not young you might just learn something.
BTW: Mother Earth would approve. Each contains a message relating to the 3 R’s. If you’re not familiar with the 3 R’s then you better check out our February post ‘Do you know Jack?’.
A Pig Tale ~ by Olivia Newton-John
And Still the Turtle Watched ~ by Sheila MacGill-Callahan
The Day the Trash Came Out to Play ~ by David M Beadle
Here’s a rather obvious hint: The hands belong to Leonid Stadnik of the Ukraine. Google his name to find out more. Quite interesting. In fact, this post has very little relevance to recycling (which you should be doing anyway), we just found the picture fascinating.
April 22, 2008 is just around the corner… how are YOU planning on celebrating Earth Day??!! Many schools plan on starting a collection contest, “caught you recycling” hand-outs, holding cell phone drives, etc. Need more ideas on how to celebrate this fine and do-good event? Scroll through the inspirations on this blog, there are plenty, or go here so you can print out tools to help in your campaign for Earth Day.
Good luck with your celebrating! Remember: the more e-waste you SAVE from the landfills, the more money goes in your fundrai$ing bank account! We are looking forward to hearing about your successes from April 22, 2008. Make sure you let us know and send pictures; we LOVE to see our schools in action!!
Walnut Glen Academy is Going Green this school year! For the past several years, our school has promoted recycling ink jet cartridges, cell phones, PDA’s, etc through information in our PTA newsletter and through the use of a “Recycle Tower” at the front of the school. The tower is just a plastic cabinet with drawers where we’ve labeled it using CFK labels and posters. It is at kid level and I think that really helps get the message to them and gives them a convenient place to recycle AT ANY TIME. We have also hosted contests, which are a great way to focus the attention on recycling and to help make it a part of our WGA families fiber. We didn’t want it to only be something done once or twice a year, but that recycling would become something each student, parent and staff member thought of doing daily. This year we established a “GO GREEN THEME OF THE MONTH” and each month we have added a new topic - our February theme is “Recycling Misc Items” (such as ink cartridges, cell phones, PDA, DVD’s - basically everything that CFK accepts). Our Green Team was formed as an elite group of environmentally aware students championing the message to the rest of our students, faculty and staff! The team meets weekly after school to create jingles for the morning announcements and make posters for the hallways and they give the adults ideas for how to tell kids to recycle. For special promotions such as a CFK contest, they stand out in the morning drop off area helping students out of their cars and at the same time reminding both students and parents to recycle.
“Our school, Hembree Springs Elementary, had a month long contest in September 2007. The class who brought in the most recycled items won a reward. One of our second grade classes won & they decided to spend the money earned from recycling on a classroom pet. It took the students & teacher about a month to come to the decision on what type of pet. The decision was a Hermit Crab. The students love taking turns feeding the crab & the best part is he can stay by himself on the weekends!”
Now that’s a face only a mother hermit crab could love.
This landed on our desks today. It’s an article from the Chicago Tribune Magazine and it reads:
Practical Lessons I have been teaching the children of Chicago for almost 30 years. The materials I needed to help my students become successful have never been provided. So I found another means - recycling.
I began when I was 20 and teaching kindergartners who had no crayons. I gave them crayons that my boyfriend, a part-time janitor in a suburban school, regularly swept off the floors.
Now I recycle used copier cartridges, printer cartridges and used cell phones for money, and it pays for most of our special-education department’s needs.
I have used Cartridges for Kids for about 10 years and have received thousands of dollars for our children. Not only do we receive money for the recycling, but our students also earn Service Learning hours toward graduation by packing the materials for shipping. Judy Benson
Bogan High School
If you do know Jack (Johnson that is) give him a hug for us. Then get busy with your 3rd ‘R’ by recycling your Cell Phones & PDAs, Ink & Toner Cartridges, iPods, DVD’s, Digital Cameras, Video Games and Laptops.
Where did we draw the inspiration for the CFK logo? You can draw your own conclusions. We can tell you it was designed by our beloved Melisa. Whether she was inspired by the image at left is hard to say.
By the way…the person at left actually works for us. I know, how did a person like that actually slip past our stringent interview process? Care to guess who?
