Hello Everyone!

Reduce, reuse, and recycle! This week I was appointed manager of the Go Green Team. The Go Green Team is a student run recycling program that helps to recycle product waste that we use here at Paul Mitchell The School. Each week one of the team members takes the recycling waste from the green bins that we have set up at the school and brings the recycling products to the McLean Bible Church in Vienna to be recycled.

Why Is Recycling Important?
Recycling preserves our environment, saves money and
Energy. It turns recyclable materials into products that we use daily.

What Can Be Recycled?
Boxes (flatten) newspapers & Inserts, cereal boxes, catalogs & magazines. Plastic bottles (milk jugs, soda, laundry detergent, salad dressing, cooking oil, shampoo, soap, cleansers). Rinse lightly. Remove lids and crush. Aluminum and steel cans. Rinse lightly. Crush if possible.
YES TO ALL EMPTY aerosols cans (such as Hold Me Tight, and Hot Off The Press).


What Can NOT Be Recycled?
NO Plastic bags or wrappers, waxed paper or containers, waxed cardboard, styrofoam, paper towels, tissues, paper plates or cups, or foil type gift wrap. NO food contaminated boxes, pizza boxes or egg cartons.

NO Magazine or yogurt containers, plastic trays, toys, cups, styrofoam, flower pots, or extra plastic bags. NO motor oil, pesticide or solvent bottles.

NO Foil or pie trays, propane cylinders, siding, beach or lawn
chairs, pots, pans or other scrap metal.

NO Window glass, drinking glasses, mirrors, ceramics, crystals, florescent or light bulbs, Corning Ware, or Pyrex.

Where Does It All Go?
The bottles, cans and paper collected for recycling are taken
to a material recovery facility to be sorted by material type
(aluminum cans, steel cans, glass bottles, plastic bottles,
newspaper, etc). Manufacturers buy the sorted recyclables
and use them as raw materials to make new products.


Recycling Facts
PAPER and CARDBOARD are made into paperboard boxes and shirt inserts.
PLASTIC is made into new plastic bottles, carpet fiber & backing.
CANS are made into new steel products and aluminum cans.
GLASS is made into new glass containers of the same color or used in asphalt to pave roads.