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From trash to cash: Recycling helps school
(Published Friday, Feb. 17, 2006)
By Chris Post/Midwest Freelancer
Ink jet printers have grown in popularity over the years, but leave their owners with a lingering question. What do you do with those empty ink cartridges?
You could always throw them out. Refilling them is another option. But friends and supporters of St. Peter School in Marshall are asked to donate them.
Principal Gary Littrell said the school recently began an ink jet cartridge recycling program. The school has an agreement with a company that collects the cartridges.
“The company comes by once a month and picks up what cartridges we have, leaves us a check and takes the cartridges,” he said. “We don’t have to mail anything or be out any money for any length of time.”
Littrell noted that in the limited time St. Peter School has been collecting cartridges things have been a little slow.
“The first four months our high was 15,” he said. “It’s easy for people to just throw them away or recycle in other places.”
A notice was recently sent to parents asking for their help, however, and Littrell said the school is ready to take all types of ink jet cartridges.
“The company we work with recycles almost every kind,” he said. “In the four months we have been doing this, they have only refused two different cartridges.”
Even with its humble beginnings, the program has already raised about $50 for the school. Littrell said the money is put into the school’s donation account.
“We buy things for students such as prayer bracelets, books, art supplies and so on,” he said.
St. Peter School is located at 368 S. Ellsworth Avenue in Marshall, Mo.
By Chris Post/Midwest Freelancer
Ink jet printers have grown in popularity over the years, but leave their owners with a lingering question. What do you do with those empty ink cartridges?
You could always throw them out. Refilling them is another option. But friends and supporters of St. Peter School in Marshall are asked to donate them.
Principal Gary Littrell said the school recently began an ink jet cartridge recycling program. The school has an agreement with a company that collects the cartridges.
“The company comes by once a month and picks up what cartridges we have, leaves us a check and takes the cartridges,” he said. “We don’t have to mail anything or be out any money for any length of time.”
Littrell noted that in the limited time St. Peter School has been collecting cartridges things have been a little slow.
“The first four months our high was 15,” he said. “It’s easy for people to just throw them away or recycle in other places.”
A notice was recently sent to parents asking for their help, however, and Littrell said the school is ready to take all types of ink jet cartridges.
“The company we work with recycles almost every kind,” he said. “In the four months we have been doing this, they have only refused two different cartridges.”
Even with its humble beginnings, the program has already raised about $50 for the school. Littrell said the money is put into the school’s donation account.
“We buy things for students such as prayer bracelets, books, art supplies and so on,” he said.
St. Peter School is located at 368 S. Ellsworth Avenue in Marshall, Mo.