Ready’s Recycle News
September 12, 2016
Inside this issue:
Preble County Solid Waste District
How to Have an EarthFriendly Back-to-School
1
Sophia’s ReCycle Bike
Gifting Program
2
Recycling Quotes
2
“Reduce, Reuse, Recycle”
Song
3
Fun Recycling Facts
3
The Definition of
Recycling
3
Earth Day Everyday
Word Search
4
Earth Friendly Back-to-School Tips for a Green School Year!
Calling All EcoFriendly Teachers in
Preble County!
To schedule a free, informative and entertaining
presentation about recycling for your classroom
contact the Preble County
Solid Waste District’s Assistant Coordinator and Educational Specialist Beth
Wright. Students will learn
what they can and cannot
recycle in Preble County,
listen to fun recycling stories, make crafts, and engage in recycling oriented
activities. Call 937-4566880 to schedule your
demonstration for this year.
With families and kids focusing on going back to school, it
can be easy to get caught up
in the consumerism of “Back
to School” shopping and buying new school supplies and
clothes. Here are a few backto-school tips for reducing,
reusing, and recycling.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
this School Year
there are always improvements to be made in a
school’s recycling program.
Encourage your school to
purchase special waste reduction equipment such as balers
for compacting cardboard or
side-by-side recycling and
trash compactors in the cafeteria to reduce waste.
Only Buy What You Need:
The deals are out there to
Not Everything Has to be
buy school supplies in bulk,
New: There are some items but in reality, some items
that simply do not have to be may be lost or unusable before you need them. Before
purchased new every school
year– such as school clothes. you start school shopping,
take inventory of what you
Hand-me-down clothes are
already have at home that is
ultra-affordable, and work
leftover from last year. Then,
especially well for younger
only buy what you need to
kids. Older kids may enjoy
reduce throwing out dry glue
shopping for their own
sticks or markers later. Enunique chic or retro style at
courage classrooms to have a
the local thrift store.
sharing table where leftover
*Remember, there are 10.5
million tons of clothes thrown items are swapped by students who need them.
in the landfill each year!
Explore What Items Can Be
Recycled to Raise Money for
the School: Many schools use
programs where they collect
items such as ink cartridges,
cereal bags, and other hard-torecycle items to raise money
for the school. Recycling programs for schools and nonprofits such as Terracycle help
to collect those items that
would otherwise be trash.
Talk to Your Teachers to See
What They Need: Chances are
if you are in elementary school,
you will do a lot of projects that
involve anything from egg cartons, magazines, toilet paper
rolls, and tissue boxes. Talk to
your teachers early in the year
to see what they will need so
you don’t end up trashing usable items.
By thinking about how we can
reduce waste not just at home
but also at school, you can
make a difference and you will
Pack School Lunches in Reus- learn lifelong habits that will
Boost Your School’s Recyable Containers: Reusable
help keep our Earth clean.
cling Program: Brainstorm
with your friends at school on food and drink containers
For a complete list of what can
that can be washed and used
how to recycle more and rebe recycled in Preble County
again can last the entire
duce waste at your school.
visit our website:
school year. Get in the habit
From using iPads instead of
of using the reusable contain- www.preblecountyrecycles.org.
printing paper, or making
ers whenever packing a lunch
sure that recycling bins for
*Source article found on http://
instead of using brown bags,
bottles & cans are convenharmony1.com/eco-friendlyplastic bottles, Ziploc baggies,
iently located, to forming a
back-to-school-tips-recycling/.
“Green Team” to help collect or other disposables and save
money & landfill space.
recyclables at your school,
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New Albany Girl Inspires Bike-Recycling Program for Needy Kids
This story is a few years
old now (January 2013),
but I thought it such an
inspiring recycling story
Nine-year old Sophia MacDonald that I couldn’t resist
of New Albany, flanked by her
printing it in this newsfather, Mac (left), and Geoff
letter. You can make a
Clark, owner of VeloScience Bike
true difference in keeping
Works in New Albany, sits on a
refurbished bike that will be doour environment clean
nated to a needy child through
while helping others just
Sophia’s ReCycle Bike Gifting
Program. She provided the impe- like this young lady did!
tus for the program at the bike
shop after she asked her father
how to refurbish her old bike and
give it as a gift.
*Article about Sophia’s Recycle
Bike Gifting was found on the
website:
www.thisweeknews.com.
The article was written by Lori
Wince on Wednesday, January 2,
2013.
When 9-year-old Sophia
MacDonald of New Albany,
Ohio got a bicycle in December for her birthday,
she wanted her old bike to
be refurbished and given
as a gift to a child in need.
“I’ve been watching a lot
of (television) shows
Article Update- Although Velowhere they help people
Science Bike Works has had to
suspend this program due to stor- and I wanted to do one of
age space and time constraints,
funds for continuing the program those things.” Sophia said.
have been forwarded to Franklinton Bike Works who is now continuing the cause in the same
communities that were served
before. Sophia’s dream lives on!
She asked her father, Mac
to help and he referred her
to Geoff Clark, owner of
VeloScience Bike Works.
“I want to help other kids
because I am thankful that
I got a bike for my birthday
and other kids didn’t get
any of those things,” Sophia said.
Clark said he is helping to
collect used bicycles and
refurbish each one.
He said Sophia provided
the idea, which has developed into Sophia’s ReCycle
Bike Gifting Program.
“We’re not just doing this
for the holidays, we want
to continue to do this yearround.” Clark said.
By the week leading up to
Christmas, Clark had received seven bicycles to
refurbish and “a small cash
donation to help with replacement parts.”
He was expecting more
bicycles to be donated that
week.
Mr. MacDonald said Sophia might have gotten the
idea from an episode of 60
Minutes, which featured a
young adult who had built
houses and schools in other countries since age 10.
Mr. MacDonald said Sophia and Clark are working
with school districts in central Ohio to determine the
best way to locate children
in need of bicycles.
Officials at Parsons Elementary School in Columbus have agreed to help
find students to receive
the bicycles. Principal Candace Nespeca said she is
working with the two to
help get bicycles to needy
children. Anyone interested in donating a bicycle
can contact Clark at 614855-9590 or visit velosciencebikeworks.com.
“The greatest
threat to our
Earth is that
someone else
will save it.”
-Robert
Swan
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Fun Recycling Facts
Recycling one glass
bottle saves enough
electricity to light a
100-watt bulb for 4
hours.

Most bottles and jars
contain at least 25%
recycled glass.

Americans throw
away enough steel
every year to build all
the new cars made in
America.

Americans use 4 million plastic bottles
every hour, yet only
one bottle out of four
is recycled.

About 1,200 soft drink
and salad dressing
containers could carpet the average living
room.

The energy conserved
by recycling one
pound of steel cans is
enough to light a 60watt light bulb for
more than a day.

Paper made from recycled paper instead of
virgin fiber requires
70% less energy.
The Definition of Recycling:
“Recycling is the process of turning used waste and materials into
new products. This prevents potentially useful materials from being wasted as well as reducing energy use and pollution.”
Preble County Solid Waste District
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4499 US Rt. 127 South
Eaton, Ohio 45320
Phone: 937-456-6880
Fax: 937-456-6690
E-mail: [email protected]
Recycling Never Goes
Out of Style!
We’re on the Web!
www.preblecountyrecycles.org
The Preble County Solid Waste
District is dedicated to promoting
recycling, waste reduction and
responsible waste management
within Preble County, OH. We
want to assure safe and sanitary
disposal of solid waste for Preble
County residents and reduce reusable or renewable waste from
entering our landfill.
To find out what items can be
recycled in Preble County and for
recycling tips you can use in your
everyday life, please visit our
website:
www.preblecountyrecycles.org
Recyclable Materials List:
1. Plastic– Soda, milk, detergent, shampoo & small
mouth bottles with a #1 or
#2 on them.
2. Glass– Clear, brown, &
green glass bottles
3. Mixed Paper– Newspaper,
magazines, telephone
books, catalogs, paperboard boxes (cereal,
snacks, etc.), junk mail.
4. Cans-aluminum and bimetal beverage cans, steel
food/tin cans.
5. Cardboard– Corrugated
cardboard of any size, broken down & flattened.
“Don’t trash our future! Recycle
whenever and wherever you can!”
Most Americans produce about 4 lbs. of
trash per day, about
half of which could
have been recycled!