In honor of Earth Day, we will be having our second Recycling Bonanza from April 21-23rd. Please send in the following items and we will get them to the proper collection facility:
Alkaline batteries (no damaged batteries, please)
Rechargeable batteries
Printer cartridges
Crocs(tm)
Cell phones (chargers, too)
Travel sized toiletries (for Embrace Richmond)
Children's magazines-gently used (for the CCPS free teacher store From Crayons to Computers)
Yogurt cups (no Yoplait or multipaks, please)
Plastic shopping bags
Packing materials (bubble wrap and styrofoam peanuts)
5 comments:
How do you recycle the Crocs or are they donated to a place like Goodwill?
Dillards accepts the Crocs through a program called Soles United. Right now the retailer search isn't working...I hope they still accept them.
Have you tried recycling sneakers or other clothing at all? I asked about this in the Green Gab chat box as well.
We tried to recycle sneakers through the Nike Reuse-A-Shoe program but they couldn't accept the large quantity we had collected (I think they are overwhelmed by the amount of old sneakers people are trying to donate). Instead we gave them to Goodwill which is striving to be zero-landfill oriented, I am hoping they found a good use for them.
We also collected jeans that we shipped off to Fair Indigo to be used in insulation for Habitat for Humanity housed. The drawback of that item was the expense to ship it out to Wisconsin.
I added the Crocs and the jean recycling ideas to our website so we can consider those ideas in the future.
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