Lonsdale Youth Recycling Green Team Program

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LONSDALE PARKS & RECREATION 415 Central Street West PO Box 357 Lonsdale, MN 55046 507-744-2327 www.lonsdale.govoffice.

1 LONSDALE PARKS & RECREATION 415 Central Street West PO Box 357 Lonsdale, MN Lonsdale Youth Recycling Green Team Program Lonsdale has curbside pickup for newspapers, corrugated cardboard, and other paper products. These items can be recycled, but not everyone takes the time to do this. As a result, quite a bit of recyclable paper is being sent to the trash disposal facility. The Youth Recycling Program is designed to get youth groups involved in promoting cardboard and mixed paper recycling in Lonsdale. Newspapers, corrugated cardboard and other paper products will continue to be recycled through the curbside program. However, youth groups will help promote the use of recycling collection boxes located at Fred s IGA Food Store located at 750 Ash Street NE in Lonsdale. This site provides a more convenient location for people to drop off a variety of recyclable goods. What s In It For Your Youth Group? As a reward for helping to promote cardboard and mixed paper recycling in Lonsdale, your youth group will receive $15/ton for all the paper and cardboard collected while you are charge of the program.

2 PROGRAM RESPONSIBILITES YOUTH GROUPS: Periodically monitor the collection boxes at the IGA store. Pick up any loose paper and to make sure the area around the box is staying clean. Get information out to the community about recycling program. This could include putting up posters, knocking on doors, visiting area businesses, etc. Be creative; come up with unique activities that will increase the recycling of paper and cardboard in Lonsdale. Communicate any problems with the program to Darrell Hoekstra at Waste Management, Help to make sure that the box is being picked up when it is full. WASTE MANAGEMENT: Monitor the recycling boxes and haul them to the recycling center when it is full. Pay the youth group $15/ton for paper and cardboard that is recycled. IGA Grocery Store: Provide space for the recycling boxes.

3 RECYCLING GUIDELINES DO INCLUDE THESE TYPES OF PAPER IN THE MIXED PAPER RECYCLING BOX AT THE IGA Grocery Store: Phone books Newspapers Magazines & Catalogs Softcover books Construction paper & Coloring books Paper of all types Envelopes of all types Junk mail File folders Boxboard (cereal, cake, cracker, and chip boxes- plastic liner must be removed) Greeting cards and wrapping paper Pop and beer cartons THERE WILL BE A SEPARATE BOX NEXT TO THE MIXED PAPER RECYCLING BOX FOR CARDBOARD ONLY. PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT ONLY CARDBOARD GOES INTO THIS BOX. THIS IS A SLIGHT CHANGE IN THE PROGRAM SO PLEASE FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES CAREFULLY.

THESE ITEMS ARE NOT RECYCLABLE Pizza boxes Waxed paper or anything String, twine, cotton balls, waxed like milk cartons, diapers frozen food boxes, drink Napkins, paper towels boxes tissues Candy and

4 THESE ITEMS ARE NOT RECYCLABLE Pizza boxes Waxed paper or anything String, twine, cotton balls, waxed like milk cartons, diapers frozen food boxes, drink Napkins, paper towels boxes tissues Candy and gum wrappers Cups, coffee filters, tea bags Photos, slides, carbon paper, transparencies Wallpaper PAPER RECYCLING FACTS For every ton of paper recycled, the following resources are saved: 17 trees 4100 KWH of electricity 9 barrels (380 gallons) of oil 54 million BTU s of energy 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space 60 pounds of air pollutants 7,000 gallons of water Every year each person in the United States used paper equivalent to 2 pine trees. Using recycled fiber to make paper saves 33% of the total energy needed to make virgin paper from trees. The average American used 650 pounds of paper each year.

5 Youth Recycling Green Team Evaluation Form Organization Date Contact Phone 1. List the recycling education activities that your youth organization developed and participated in during the past three months. Attach examples of newsletters, articles, flyers or posters that were developed (by the Green Team) to this form. 2. What did the members of the Green Team learn from this recycling experience? 3. Additional comments and/or suggestions for the Program Sponsors and future Green Teams: Thank You For Your Participation in Our Youth Recycling Green Team Program! Please return form to: Darrell Hoekstra, Waste Management, 1601 East Highway 13, Suite 100, Burnsville, MN

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