The final count is in! Over 2,000 pounds collected by YES! teams. As compared to last year's haul of 1,972.6 pounds, this year's teams collected 2,449.9 pounds of Holiday Lights as a part of the now annual "Recycle Your Holidays" campaign. Hosted by the Recycling Association of Minnesota, Recycle Your Holidays is a statewide initiative to recycle old holiday lights properly. As a part of the
Restructuring Northfield’s Recycling
The Northfield YES! Team/Transition Youth group, a group of high school students from Northfield High School and ARTech, has been working to build several recycling bin prototypes. Once they have been approved, these recycling bins will be permanently installed in the downtown Northfield area and surrounding parks. Their goal is to design and build 16 recycling bins for downtown
10 feet to Recycling
Next time you're at your school's basketball game, or any sporting event - take note of the garbage can locations as compared to the recycling bins. Typically, I am happy when I see a recycling container anywhere - however, you may find that that just having the bins may not be enough to encourage recycling of those plastic pop bottles. At the end of a recent basketball tournament I attended I
Litchfield Lights fill car
While you could claim its a small car, this is the SECOND collection of lights this season from the Litchfield YES! team. Way to go Litchfield! Just think - all those lights are NOT going to a landfill this season.
“We’re spreading the news…!”
Sleepy Eye YES! team is in the news with their recent collection of Holiday Lights! Read more here! Make sure to also stay up-to-date with other YES! teams with their own websites too, by clicking on their links on the Current YES! Teams page.
Team Collects 400lbs. of Holiday Lights, so far
Sleepy Eye YES! team recently went caroling for lights, where they went door to door to collect old holiday lights people wanted to recycle. They have collected 400lbs so far, and they are still going! They plan to continue to collect lights now through next week at their schools. If you still have a bag of lights you'd like to recycle drop them off at either the Sleepy Eye High School or St.