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Talk about getting some good publicity for your recycling campaign…

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Anna May Daulton Elementary School truly believes recycling is a community effort!  The community really showed this to be true on Earth Day, April 22^nd.

Radio Disney donated prizes for our recycling contest. We had a drawing for the grand prize. It was a High School Musical 2 poster signed by the cast!

Texas Rangers Captain made a surprise visit during lunch for the class that recycled the most. Needless to say the students were thrilled to see him. He went around giving everyone a high 5 for recycling.
Lunch time…guess who’s on the menu.

Ms. Sarvis showing off some of the 320 items saved from the landfills! Her class had 100% participation!

Every student that recycled on Earth Day got to sign the tree. What a wonderful way to leave your mark!

There is an old saying…it takes a village to raise a child.  Here’s the new saying “it takes a community to educate a child on recycling”.  Children learn by example!

Time to get your ‘Third R’ on.  Reduce, Reuse, Recycle for Earth Day.  However, don’t stop when Earth Day has come and gone.  Keep on keepin’ on.  Er, whatever; just keep recycling.

Somebody was thinking outside the box, so to speak, and told us of a great way to get people involved.  Simply place an ad on Craigslist about collecting phones, cartridges, etc.  Apparantly it worked.  Sounds like they’ve received quite a few cell phones.  Check it out:
http://fortcollins.craigslist.org/wan/612324789.html
Oh, I guess they also placed an ad on Yahoo’s Freecycle.  Now that’s using your noggin.

We were able to come up with photos that are part of the comment left by Maggi Alexander under ‘…WHAT YOU DO’ at the top of the page.
You haven’t read it you say…?  Well, you’re missing a great story and message.

Floyd Elementary School recently held a Cell Phone Drive. Their incentive - “Eyeball pizza, served by Shrek”. (It’s great to be a kid.)  Well, as you can see they did it.  Their cell phone drive was a success and as you can see, via the pics, Shrek did in fact serve up his famous “Eyeball Pizza”.

The kids had great fun visiting with Shrek and eating his wonderful creation!

One of the young recyclers was especially excited to see Shrek!

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!!

Happy Earth Day and Happy Recycling!

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.

Check out the ‘Comment’ posted by Maggi Alexander under …WHAT YOU DO at the top of the page.

We’re impressed, and moved.  And we wholeheartedly agree with the Ordinary Hero nomination.

Earlier we ran a post, ‘School Personnel Beware’, about a school holding a collection contest.  If the students were able to reach certain goals in terms of number of items collected the school staff were to perform certain, not so endearing, tasks.  One of which was to kiss a pig.  Well,  we’ve now got photo proof of how many items the students collected.  Take a look at the picture sets below.  Obviously the collection was a success.  Sandford’s a fun school for sure.

Doesn’t the pig look thrilled.  Geesh, they even dressed it up.  Like that helps!

Kaaapow!  Gettin’ pied.  A couple of guys killin’ the mic.

Enjoying the baby food spinach, kinda.  Getting hauled off to the pokey.

“We did a cell phone & cartridge drive around Christmas time.  We sent out flyers before the break and reminders afterward asking parents to bring in anything replaced over the holidays.  By January 20th the collection box was full!  One of our dads works for a company with drivers that replaced their old cell phones, so he brought in 4 boxes of phones!  A parent volunteer boxed everything up and called FedEx for a pick up.  The next thing we knew we were being told we raised over $2000!“

Cathy V.
St. Luke Catholic School

Actually, it was more like ‘over $2200′. Nice work St. Luke Catholic School!