Save Million Trees, Inc. Non-Profit has done it again! They previously launched a campaign where they are urging households to reduce the waste they create – by helping households to stop receiving junk mail. Every household receives 41 lb of junk mail every year. The more households refuse to receive direct marketing materials, the less direct marketing materials, catalogs, and brochures are printed. This is the beauty of this program – it does not patch the problem by getting the junk mail recycled, but actually, in the long term, reduces the amount that is produced! This, of course, significantly lower the amount of tax dollars that cities, counties and states have to waste in transporting and recycling direct marketing materials.
Now Save Million Trees has launched a new campaign, to save even more of our forests. Their KIDS GO GREEN campaign addresses another urgent problem – the huge amount of paper waste that our children create in schools. Kids Go Green gets schools recycling by making it easy for them.
As we all know, our little ones are major creators – and create a huge amount of paper waste as a side product annually. A study done by Recycle Today states that one elementary student creates 99 lb of paper waste in one school year. Most of this paper waste does not get recycled due to ever decreased funding in schools. Effective recycling campaigns for preschools and elementary schools are sorely needed. Save Million Trees, Organization’s Kids Go Green campaign donates free recycling bins to where it really counts – in the classrooms! This, or course makes it extremely easy for our kids to recycle – children are forced to choose every time they throw something away!
Placing recycling bins in classrooms is shown to increase recycling by over 80% - causing just one recycling bin in a classroom to save 27 trees in just one school year! As the bins are used for years, Save Million Trees rightfully claims that one $10.00 donation that pays for bins to one classroom will save 270 trees in 10 years!
