Monday, April 4, 2016
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Howe Brownies seeking Household Elf Badge
Howe Brownies worked on their Household Elf badge. The Howe Brownies of Girl Scout Troop of Howe TX, #3698 chose to recycle for their Household Elf Badge. Recycling is a great way to help the environment – and reusing things is great, too. When you send bottles, paper, and plastic away to the recycling plant, it takes energy to turn them into new products. When you reuse something, you’re keeping it out of the trash system altogether. How long does it take garbage to break down in the environment? Newspaper: 6 weeks Apple core: 2 months Plastic bag: 10 – 20 years Aluminum can: 80 – 200 years Glass bottle: 1 million years Most plastic bottles: Never
for different types of recycling, and help family members use them. Is there anything in your recycling you could reuse, such as old jars or plastic bags? Collect 20 leftover plastic bags and take them back to a store that recycles them. Recycled plastic bags can be used to make plastic lumber for decks or swing sets and polar fleece for vests and coats. Set up a place at school where other kids can bring in plastic bags. With a parent, take what you collect for a month to a store for recycling.
Donate toys and clothes to Peggy's Porch. With your family, go through your toys and clothes and set aside what you don’t play with or wear anymore. (Make sure How much trash can you stash? anything in this pile is in good Weigh your trash for a week. See enough shape that someone else how many pounds you can reduce could use it.) Bag up your things in your trash. Make containers and drop off them.
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Neighborhood watch dog; Not Keeping Howe Beautiful
Each Monday, city workers arrive to the same type of scenario on the grounds of the recycling containers. Due to a few citizens who have ruined the recycling experience for the town by tossing in their trash instead of recyclables, the city has had to manipulate the hours of the containers in order to prevent such misuse. However, due to the closed hours, some feel the need to just leave their trash or recycling on the grounds for someone else to pick up. Also, the reconstruction of the former First Christian Church requires a container outside of the building. However, it seems that some citizens are confused and think that it is a public trash container. The volunteer organization that raised $25,000 for the renovation effort is currently paying for the trash container, therefore, those placing their trash in this container are stealing from the great community involvement program that took place in October. There is an easy fix to all of your trash issues - call the city and find out what you can do. City Hall's
phone number is 903-532-5571. Those caught dumping illegally could face hefty fines. We can do better than this. When you think of your city as you do your home, these things will cease to happen. If any of this disturbs you and you would like to become a member of Keep Howe Beautiful, please contact Donna Wormsbaker at djwormsbaker@verizon.net as she is the Executive Director of the program. Membership dues are $10 per year for individuals and they have clean-up days and flower planting days. They are NOT, however, responsible for picking up your trash. Please take pride in your community and take the time to make Howe the best place to live. In addition, if you find someone littering or misusing the trash services, please don't hesitate to send photos to news@howeenterprise.com. It has been suggested that the Howe Enterprise start a "public shaming" column in order to alleviate these issues.
