Carton Council joins Keep America Beautiful to increase carton recycling
School-based carton recycling programs added to KAB Recycle-Bowl, nets over 16,000 pounds of cartons
Every day, large quantities of milk and juice are consumed in schools across the country, so it’s a natural fit for schools to develop and implement school-based carton recycling programs. Recognizing the fast-growing pace of carton recycling, this year Keep America Beautiful (KAB, www.kab.org) created a special category for carton recycling in its popular annual competition called Recycle-Bowl.
The Carton Council of North America (www.RecycleCartons.com) sponsored the new Recycle-Bowl award category for participating schools that recycled the most cartons. A total of 16,347 pounds of cartons were recycled by 27 participating elementary and middle schools from across the country. The Kodak Park School #41 in Rochester, NY, won, recycling the most milk and juice cartons per capita (6.4 pounds, or a total of 3,200 pounds). In addition to national bragging rights, the school was awarded $500 from the Carton Council award.