The fourth R: Schools put recycling lessons into practice

  • By January Wetzel
  • First Posted: March 14, 2013 - 12:21 am
    Last Updated: March 14, 2013 - 12:23 am

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In just one month, students at St. Ambrose Catholic School drank 740 cartons of milk and used more than 205 inches — or 17 feet — of paper.

Instead of throwing the cardboard containers and marked up worksheets in the trash, the school recycled them.

At Seymour-Jackson Elementary School, students used more than 1,000 bottle caps of all sizes and colors to create a giant under-the-sea mural to decorate a hallway.

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