The Girl Scouts of the USA will turn 100 years old on March 12, and are celebrating Green Forever. The Girl Scouts Tioga Service Unit has teamed with terracycle.com to minimize the waste stream to earn its Celebrating 100 Forever Green Patch. Members will collect personal and beauty products such as shampoo bottles and makeup cases to be recycled on March 17 from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the United Methodist Church, 899 Yosemite Parkway.

Two of the reasons for the superior taste in their cereal is they use all natural ingredients as well as packaging every cereal in a “freshness saver” bag. There are no artificial preservatives, colors or flavors and no hydrogenated oils or high fructose corn syrup. With their clever “freshness saver” bags the cereal’s quality is kept intact and there is no need for a box. This less packaging saves natural resources. Here are some stats from their packaging:

Nous essayons de proposer des filières de recyclage pour ces choses qui ne se recyclent pas etc. Ainsi les stylos, feutres et autres instruments d’écriture. Terracycle nous offre une solution. Le but de TerraCycle? Eliminer la notion de déchet!

Garfield Elementary School students learn about recycling

CEDAR RAPIDS — A new “Star Wars” lunchbox is in 6-year-old John Maloy’s future, but the space enthusiast’s lunchtime excitement Monday centered around a closer-to-home initiative to benefit planet Earth. “Reduce, reuse, recycle,” the Garfield Elementary School kindergartner recited after dropping his milk carton and plastics in recycling bins in the school cafeteria. “It usually goes in the trash,” he said about the materials being recycled with the help of Green Iowa AmeriCorps. Monday was a test project of AmeriCorps’ Garbage Gabbers program at Garfield, 1201 Maplewood Dr. NE. Seven members of Green Iowa AmeriCorps, who promote energy savings through weatherization and environmental education, directed students on where to properly place their recyclables during the school’s lunch hour.

Both Chemung and Tioga counties recycle much material, including plastic grocery bags in Tioga. There are some things, however, neither county takes, such as plastic bowls or tubs for yogurt, margarine, Cool Whip, deli foods and the like. I always cringe when I throw those items away. If you'd like to reduce the quantity of waste going into the landfill and at the same time do something for the planet by donating items that will be refashioned into something else, it's now easy in Spencer-Van Etten. Following is a list of many items that you can recycle locally, as long as they are clean and free of food bits: juice pouches, empty chip bags (all sizes), candy bar wrappers from Mars/Wrigley or Cadbury, Lunchables lunch kits (all parts), plastic wrappers from Scott brand paper products, all Kraft cheese bags and cream cheese tubs, Scotch tape rolls and dispensers, shampoo and conditioner bottles, energy and granola bar wrappers, cookie bags and wrappers with the plastic trays, Colgate toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes and cardboard packaging, plastic butter tubs, plastic Solo cups, Elmer's glue sticks and bottles, yogurt cups, cell phones, MP3 players, ink jet printer cartridges, laptop computers, computer keyboards, computer mice and digital cameras.

Nouveau bac de collecte au CDI Chaque stylo déposé dans le bac de collecte rapporte 2 centimes à l'association des élèves.

Vous pouvez déposer vos feutres et stylos usagés dans le hall de l’école maternelle

CLARK — Nicole Mailloux’s seventh grade writing students at Carl H. Kumpf Middle School in Clark are actively participating in a service learning project to utilize persuasive writing techniques in order to motivate other middle school students to take part in an international recycling program, Terracycle. This unit was designed to help students find practical, everyday uses for persuasive writing as well as to teach Kumpf students to be more conscious of waste and simple ways to “go green.”

BIC ET TERRACYCLE LANCENT LE PREMIER PROGRAMME DE COLLECTE ET DE RECYCLAGE D’INSTRUMENTS D’ECRITURE USAGÉS en France SEM’Jeunes s’associe à cette opération Rejoignez-nous !

Posiblemente ésta sea la primera vez que te encuentras con la palabra upcycling en un texto y seguramente la palabra supra-reciclaje no te suene mucho más. Por eso intentaremos explicar claramente en qué consiste el upcycling y cómo algunas empresas lo están llevando a cabo. El upcycling, o supra-reciclaje, consiste en la reutilización de los productos que son considerados como basura. La basura puede ser tratada de dos formas: como el material del que está hecha o como la forma que tiene. Por ejemplo, una bolsa de patatas fritas está hecha de plástico y tiene forma de bolsa. Cuando llevamos a cabo un proceso de upcycling con este deshecho, aprovechamos todas sus partes sin destruir ni la forma ni el material del que está compuesto. Sin embargo, si lo reciclaramos transformaríamos nuestra bolsa de patatas en otro producto de plástico, conservando únicamente el material.