St. Austin Catholic School has expanded the recycling program. Here's how you can help!
- Encourage your children and family to recycle at home
- Bring unused/unwanted magazines, old mail, paper, envelopes, newspapers, etc. to the Green and Yellow Paper Retriever Bin on the south side of the school (near McDonalds)
- Spread the word and have friends and extended family participate as well!!
Recycling Tips and Factoids:
Tip: put a brown paper bag in your home office to throw away your junk mail, catalogs and un-needed papers. (You will be amazed at how fast it fills up.) Every week, bring your items to the recycling bin on the south side of St. Austin. Better yet, call companies and ask to be taken off their mailing list...saves paper, energy and less for you to deal with!
Tip: If you do online bill pay, save your return envelopes from companies. You can use these clean envelopes to send in payment or notes to your kids' school. This will reuse the paper and offer a safe and convenient way to transfer the money, notes, etc. Or you can collect them and put them in the recycling bin on the south side of St. Austin.
Tip: rinse out your cans, bottles, etc. before throwing them in the recycling bin. Before you toss, check with the Art teacher at St. Austin because she frequently needs old bottles and cans for projects!!
Factoid: It takes 200-500 years for an aluminum can to decompose (rot)! It takes about 450 years for a plastic 6-pack cover to decompose. Recycle these items and keep them out of landfills.
Factoid: A single tree can filter up to 60lbs. of pollutants from the air each year. Plant a tree and take a deep breath!
Factoid: We could save about 555,556 trees every Sunday if we recycled all our newspapers. Each year we throw away enough wood and paper to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years! Give your old wood boards to Habitat for Humanity and recycle those papers!
Factoid: Organic gardening renews the soil and keeps it healthy. It keeps you healthy too without the added chemicles! Plant an organic garden in your yard next spring & fall and taste the difference. You will do something good for your body and for the earth!
Tip: compost your vegetable and fruit remains. Egg shells are great too! Throw it in a bin with fresh soil and turn it every few days. You'll have great, enriched soil to plant your flowers or start an organic garden!