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Bond Mill Students and Their Families Care About Our Environment

Click Below To Find Out More About:

1.Our Ink Cartridge, Laser Cartridge and Cell Phone Recycling Program

2. Our Paper Recycling Program

 

 

Recycling is our Connection to the Future!

                 

 

It is estimated that 300 million cartridges are thrown away every year.

 

Bond Mill Elementary Ink Cartridge

and Cell Phone Recycling Program

By Participating in the Ink Cartridge/Laser Cartridge/Cell Phone Recycling

Program Our School Will:

  • Earn money for special projects and activities

  • Divert ink cartridges, laser cartridges and cell phones from local landfills

  • Teach students the importance of environmental stewardship

  • Provide the community with a convenient drop-off for used ink cartridges and cell phones

  • Have a community program that runs through the school year

  • Look for our Ink Cartridge/Cell Phone Bin in our front lobby

Please send cartridges in plastic bags to prevent any possible leakage on hands, clothing, backpacks, etc.

We encourage you to collect cartridges from your places of employment, co-workers and neighbors. We are also looking for corporate sponsors.  THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS - WHICH TRANSLATES INTO ENDLESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR SCHOOL.

 

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Recycling is our Connection to the Future!

 

By Participating in the Paper Recycling Program Our School Will:

  • Earn money for special projects and activities

  • Divert paper from local landfills

  • Teach students the importance of environmental stewardship

  • Be able to recycle flattened cardboard (from our school only)

  • Comply with waste reduction legislation

  • Provide the community with a convenient drop-off for recyclable paper

  • Have a community program that runs all year - even in the summer

  • Look for our Paper Retriever Bin on the side of our building

Paper suitable for recycling includes clean and dry:

  • Newspapers

  • Magazines

  • Shopping Catalogs

  • Office and School Papers

  • Mail (even w/windows)

  • Fax and Copy Paper

  • Colored Paper

Please Do NOT include:

  • Plastic

  • Glass

  • Metals

  • Trash

  • Phone Books

 

 

Thank you for your support of this important fund-raising effort!

Make Paper Soup

PAPER HISTORY -Invented by the Chinese around 105 A.D. to replace silk pages. T'sai Lung, a court scribe, wanted to please his emperor and made the first "paper soup" from bark, rags and fish net. It was 500 years later when the recipe's secret was discovered and brought to the West.

 

PAPER MAKING -Today, un-recycled paper is made similarly with a soup of tree parts, water and chemicals which is blended together to look like oatmeal. Sometimes bleach is added to make it whiter, then starch is added to help glue the fibers together. This mixture, called a

"slurry", is sprayed onto screens where it is dried and wound on huge spools to make it ready for use by printers and publishers.

 

RECYCLED PAPER MAKING -Uses paper already made and can be done over and over again.