The next Trash-to-Treasure Drive is at:
Taylor Elementary
Saturday, January 7, 2012
1:00 to 3:00 pm
(snow date of January 14th)
Taylor Elementary School invites the Arlington community to support recycling and reuse of materials at its annual Trash-to-Treasure Drive. The school will accept broken or working mobile phones, laptops, ink jet cartridges, and certain metal jewelry, and other small handheld electronics (see the full list below). Materials will be processed
through www.recyclingfundraiser.com and will be recycled or reused depending on their condition. The following items will be accepted:
- mobile phones (not their accessories; Arlington County county will accept them as a special pickup of "electronics")
- laptop computers
- digital cameras
- digital video recorders
- portable DVD players
- MP3 Players
- X-Boxes, Playstations, Wii
- GPS devices
- radar detectors
- Kindle and Sony book readers
- digital picture frames
- Ink jet printer cartridges (these are the size of a deck of cards; toner cartridges are the size of a loaf of bread and are NOT accepted)
- silver, gold, and platinum jewelry
***Please DO NOT bring anything not specifically on this list because we will not be able to reuse or recycle other electronic items.***
For more information, contact Alison Davis-Holland at handsonscience at taylorpta dot org. To learn more about why it is so important to recycle electronics and jewelry, visit:
http://www.recyclingfundraiser.com/FaqPhone.aspx#7
http://www.secret-life.org/cellphones/
Does you school, neighborhood, or organization want to host a Trash-to-Treasure Drive?
Read below and contact Alison at reuseyourtrash at gmail dot com.
For schools, it is a great way to make a difference. Subscribe to APS Green Schools for more info on environmental intiatives in Arlington Public Schools. At Taylor Elementary, the drives are coordinated through the Science Curriculum Committee and the event is tied into to learning about resource conservation and the Reduce Reuse Recycle (3Rs). We obtain permission from the principal and sponsor the event with the SCA. We publicize the drive through an email or take home flyer and through the newsletter. Students make posters and decorate a bulletin board with sample materials to help publicize the event. SCA students participate on the day of the drive by collecting and sorting materials. We ask for parent volunteers to deliver materials to businesses (Packing companies usually come too the event with their trucks because there is so much material.) Some helpful files are below in Adobe PDF format.
Trash to Treasure Word Search for the students to do in class prior to the Drive