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Here’s one more website with a list of things to recycle.  It also tells you how to group your recyclables so they can be collected!  Please check this website out!

Here’s the link: http://shea.unm.edu/recycle.html

I found a website that tells you what you can recycle and what you can’t recycle.  It’s important not to try to recycle things that you can’t recycle, but it’s even more important to know what you can recycle.  Explore the list on this website!

Here’s the link: http://www.recycle.umich.edu/grounds/recycle/PDF/Recycling_Not_Waste_of_Time.pdf

I found another website where you can find a huge list of things to recycle.  The list even includes where to recycle these things! Check it out because there may be things on there that you didn’t even know you could recycle!

Here’s the link: http://www.cambridgema.gov/TheWorks/departments/recycle/donaterecycle.html

Well we called some places around town to see who would let us set up a recycling station.  So far we haven’t had much sucess, but we may be able to set up a station at the Tenafly Library and the CVS in Tenafly.  If this doesn’t work out, we may have to modify our plan a little.  We might end up just asking different stores for their ink cartridges so we can recycle them instead of having people drop their ink cartridges off at a station.  We’ll see what happens with the library and CVS first.  One way or another, we will get this project moving as soon as possible.  Again, any ideas are welcome.  Thanks.

Our groups met last Friday again and we have created some goals for the end of January going into February.  We decided that we needed to advertise our project and we needed a way to get people to listen to our proposals.  My group decided to write up some flyers and hand them to people, telling them about our project as we hand them out.  That is our first goal of the month, to make and finalize the flyers.  Another goal of ours is to find out the places that we can set up stations for people to drop off their ink cartridges, CDs and floppy disks.  Then we want to go ahead and set up those stations.

 Any ideas on what should be in our presentation and flyers or where we should set up the recycling stations?

There are a lot of things you can recycle, ink cartridges aren’t the only things. I found another link that will tell you how you can help the environment by recycling objects you come in contact with everyday. Try to follow the tips on this website. Keep looking for ways to help the environment!

Here’s the link: http://library.thinkquest.org/11353/gather/help.htm  

We haven’t gotten our project started yet, but we’re working on it.  In the mean time, I have another link that will stress the importance of recycling to you.  Think about how you can do your part to help the environment.  Little actions help too!

Here’s the link: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0775891.html

This is a video about reducing waste and recycling.  These things help the environment a lot.  The video is a fun way to learn about recycling! Listen to it!

Hey! Welcome to TMS Saves.  At TMS, our teachers have put the world in our hands.  And we’re going to try to keep the world environmentaly safe.  Believe it or not… you can help us.  My friends and I have a plan to recycle ink cartridges, floppy disks, and CDs and we want everyone to get  involved.  Ink cartridges contribute to solid waste a lot.  Solid waste uses up a lot of needed space and also harms the environment when it heats up or decays.  We are currently trying to set up deposit sites for these materials around our town so that people will recycle them.  Then we will bring those materials to a Staples that collects and recycles those materials.  We’re going to inform our town about our plan through flyers and this way everyone will know to recycle.  But we want to carry out our plan on a larger scale.  Any ideas on how to do that efficiently?

We would love for you to help us! Try to get this project started where you live!  Making flyers is an easy way to inform people. 

Remember to recycle! Thanks.                                                                  

Here is the address for the Staples website www.staples.com  …if you would like to find out about their recycling program put “do you recycle ink cartridges?” into the search space.   Then click “recycle for education”

(the link for the picture on this page is: http://www.lenntech.com/zero-discharge.htm)