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More Than 8,500 Tons Of Paper
In total, 8582 tons of paper were recycled through the paper drive, which took place during the month of April to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The Nationwide Paper Drive also raised more than $150,000 for nonprofit organizations who participate in the Paper Retriever program. | |
The tonnage recycled through the Nationwide Paper Drive saved over:
60,000 gallons of water,
25,700 cubic yards of landfill space,
17,164 barrels of oil, and
35,187,676 kilowatt-hours of energy - enough to power more than 4,000 average American homes for one year.
The impact of recycling through Paper Retriever expands beyond the green-and-yellow recycling bins and beyond the month of April.
"This year, rather fhan focusing our efforts on a single day we decided to celebrate Earth Day for an entire month." said Sylvain Longval, Vice President of Recycling, North America for AbitibiBowater's Paper Retriever program. "We wanted to work with Paper Retriever partners across the country on a program that would really make an impact. We're very excited about the amount of paper our partners were able to recycle, but we're more than thrilled that those efforts have resulted in a nearly $400,000 payout to nonprofit partners in the Paper Retriever program in the month of April."
Paper Retriever is a simple recycling program that directly benefits the community as well as the environment. Schools, churches and other nonprofit organizations in cities across the country place our distinctive green-and-yellow bins in highly visible areas outside their organizations where members of the community and the organization itself can donate their recyclable paper. The nonprofit organizations are then paid based on the tonnage that their bin collects; those funds can be used for textbooks, playground repair, even school field trips or other programs.
Full Circle Recycling A true Full-Circle Recycler,® AbitibiBowater uses the paper it collects for use in making newspapers. The paper you recycle today may be the newspaper you read in just a few weeks….and again in two months...and again.
That process is called full-circle recycling. The Paper Retriever program is different from other recycling programs since it does not recycle old paper for just "one time use" but recycles paper again and again, for as many times as you bring them your old paper.
Click here to view the full-circle recycling process. | |
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