April 25, 2008 Vol.I Issue 23





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Honoring Earth Day, Plastic Bottles Needed

Don’t throw away that plastic bottle, recycle it! Diana Dobin Kauppinen and her brother Michael Dobin of Valley Forge Fabrics, Inc. showed Lower School students the benefits of recycling. Their company recycles plastics into fabric. The Dobin Family came to Pine Crest to take part in Earth Day activities. Jake and Caleb Kauppinen helped their mom and uncle with demonstrations. The assembly transitioned nicely into the fifth-grade Green Team’s master plan to take Pine Crest green. Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to save their empty plastic bottles and put them into garbage bags for the Green Team to collect.
Once a bag is full, please contact one of the coordinators, Mrs. Francine Rozencwaig (fbirbragher@artnexus.com) or Mrs. Lori Leiter (Lefties222@aol.com). At that time, a representative from the Green Team will collect the bags and take them to the courtyard behind the infirmary where all bottles will be gathered. The goal of the Green Team is to form a “mountain” of plastic bottles to show the children how much and how fast trash collects and ultimately pollutes the environment. If instead of throwing them in the garbage, they were to consciously put them into recycling bins (which will be placed around the campus), we can transform them into reusable materials. The bottles collected by the students from now until the end of May will be taken to a recycling plant in Albany, New York, where they will be transformed into fiber and used to create beautiful fabrics at Valley Forge Fabrics, Inc.