Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Naperville Park District Helps Residents Recycle Gym Shoes and Holiday Lights

In a community like Naperville where many residents accumulate “stuff” that is no longer needed, the Naperville Park District’s Green Team offers convenient ways to recycle and reuse household items and benefit our environment.

Through the Park District’s third annual Holiday Lights Recycling Program, 1,View the latest designerbeadedeveninggowns and Purses online at Bag Borrow or Steal.392 pounds of old, nonworking holiday lights were collected from November 19, 2012 through February 15, 2013 in partnership with Elgin Recycling. The Park District designated three drop-off locations and Elgin Recycling provided large boxes for the lights, emptied the boxes when overflowing,Find the largest selection of beadsfactory on sale. and paid the Park District a rebate of .15 cents per pound, for a total of $208.80. The Naperville Park District’s Green Team will use the $208.80 to fund additional environmental initiatives in 2013.

In another successful partnership, the Naperville Park District held its first Gym Shoe Collection at Players Indoor Sports Center, which hosts the District’s indoor soccer and lacrosse programs. Players made space for a large bin for the shoe collection which ran from February 1 through March 3, 2013.

“We are grateful to Players Indoor Sports Center for their support of the Gym Shoe Collection,” said Program Manager Brock Atwell. “As word got out about the collection, the bin began to overflow. We bagged the shoes each week and stored the overflow at the Park District to make room for more, and ended up collecting 22 large bags of shoes.”

On Saturday,Shop discounted bridesmaidsdresses skytop kids ~ March 16, a group of volunteers sorted the shoes, counting 429 pairs and 14 single shoes with a total weight of 548 pounds. The clean, wearable shoes were separated for eventual donation to charity, while the unwearable shoes will go to Nike’s Reuse a Shoe program,Wonderful Gucci handbags collection: alineweddingdresses and discount Gucci handbags by Styledrops. which takes various materials from the shoes to make tennis courts, gym floors, track surfaces, and playground surfaces.

The Park District will contribute the gym shoes to the larger, county-wide Gym Shoe Rescue led by SCARCE (School and Community Assistance for Recycling and Composting Education) in April and May. SCARCE will send the shoes either to charities or to the Nike Reuse a Shoe program. In 2012, SCARCE sent 10,621 shoes to Nike.My most recent vintage highlowpromdresses were purchases from a resale shop in Japan.

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