Recycle and Win at the Canfield Fair

For the past twenty years, the Green Team has provided recycling at the Canfield Fair. During this time, we have experimented with a variety of collection methods and have used over half a dozen different styles of containers. However, in spite of our best efforts, managing recycling at an event of this magnitude has proven to be quite the challenge. In fact,   due to high contamination rates, fair recycling has sometimes resulted in more material being landfilled rather than recovered.

 So, this year we’re trying something exciting and new! We’re providing a recycling station at our staffed booth in the government building so that we can meet fairgoers who want to recycle. We hope that this method of collection will give us the opportunity to enlighten people  about the proper way to recycle and will result in a recycling stream that is clean and green. But if you’re still not motivated, there is more!  Everyone who brings us a fair recyclable may  enter a drawing to win one of three Visa gift cards in the amount of $100.00. A reward for recycling! Does it get any better than that?

  So please stop by our booth in the government building and trade your fair recyclable for a chance to win. Who knows? You just might get lucky!
 

Just When You Thought It Was Safe

For years I have been writing about the detrimental effects of releasing helium balloons into the environment. And just when I thought I was making progress, I learned about a newer product on the market: sky lanterns.

 A sky lantern consists of a wire frame,  treated paper, and a small candle or fuel cell composed of a waxy combustible material. These fiery devices, which have become very popular during the past eight years, have been released during weddings and other celebrations with some tragic results. In Wales, a young boy suffered serious burns on his face when a lighted lantern fell on him. In Smethwick, England, a plastics recycling facility burned to the ground when a fallen lantern landed in its midst. In other areas, wildlife and domestic animals have suffered after ingesting or becoming entangled in this fallen debris.   Obviously, something needs to be done and fortunately something is being done. Sky lanterns are being banned in many states including Ohio, which considers this activity a misdemeanor that is punishable by a $1,000.00 fine.

  Please think before you release anything into the sky. The world is depending on you.

                            ~ Kim Lewis

Placemat Winners Recognized by Mahoning County

Commissioners David Ditzler, Carol Rimedio-Righetti and Anthony Traficanti honored eight students who won first place out of  967 entries in the Green Team’s 2018 Earth Day Placemat Contest.  The winners and their schools are:  Alexis Martig, Western Reserve Elem; Payton Ramos, West Blvd. Elem; Ava Acevado, West Blvd. Elem; Matthew McCune, Damascus Elem; Elena Bullen, Struthers MS; Genevieve Wulzen, Struthers MS; Sara Merzic, Glenwood Jr. High, and Asia Baker, St. Nicholas. Each student received a $25 gift card provided by Dominion Energy Ohio & assorted Earth-friendly prizes provided by the Green Team. Look for  winning placemats at the following locations:                     

• Alliance Perkins
• American Legion #737
• Royal Oaks
• Canfield Belleria
• Carchedi’s
• Beloit FD
• Denny’s
• Dino’s
• Saxon Club
• Yankee Kitchen