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2 Tons of Bags Recycled as Nashville Schools End Competition
May 8th, 2019 in Nashville Area Public Schools plastic bag recycling Cora Howe Westmeade Elementary Trex A Bag's Life
Two schools declared winners in 3-month challenge
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Bins and bags and recycling in the schools
February 18th, 2015 in GISD Earth Day 2015 Galveston students Trex Company plastic bag recycling A Bag's Life
Galveston students learn to recycle one plastic bag at a time
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It's all about recycling The Bag for 16 State College Area schools
March 5th, 2014 in State College Area School District Weis Markets Lowe's Home Improvement Trex Company Centre County Recycling and Refuse Authority Centre Region Council of Governments A Bag's Life Earth Day 2014
Elementary schools in State College Area School District in Pennsylvania compete to win plastic bag recycling challenge.
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Crockett Elementary Wins Plastic Bag Recycling Competition
May 2nd, 2013 in Earth Day 2013 reduce reuse recycle plastic bags A Bag's Life Corpus Christi Independent School District Trex
Kids take away Trex bench
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Crockett Elementary Crushes the Competition In Plastic Bag Recycling Challenge
May 2nd, 2013 in Earth Day 2013 reduce reuse recycle plastic bags A Bag's Life Corpus Christi Trex
Students Learn Valuable Lesson As Part of Earth Day Celebration
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Earth Day shows us that Green is a contagious color
April 2nd, 2013 in Earth Day 2013 reduce reuse recycle plastic bags A Bag's Life
Celebrate the Earth and recycle your plastic bags
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19 Corpus Christi Schools Compete for Green B(r)agging Rights
January 2nd, 2013 in Corpus Christi Independent School District Lowe's Home Improvement Trex Plastic Bag Challenge reduce reuse recycle A Bag's Life
The race to recycle is on for thousands of students in 19 Corpus Christi schools. At last count, nearly one-third of the schools in the Independent School District had signed up for the Plastic Bag Challenge.
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Corpus Christi Kicks Off Plastic Bag Recycling Challenge
November 14th, 2012 in America Recycles Day Corpus Christi Texas Retail Association Trex A Bag's Life reduce reuse recycle plastic bags
In advance of America Recycles Day, Corpus Christi kicked off an educational campaign today between area schools designed to inspire, excite and challenge students and their parents to reduce, reuse and recycle their plastic bags.
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Bag Collections Teach Aha Moment
October 31st, 2012 in America Recycles Day Keep North Fulton Beautiful Lowe's Home Improvement recycle plastic bags A Bag's Life
When folks tell me bag collection events are “fun” I have to laugh. Really?

But that’s exactly what Kim Branch, with Keep North Fulton Beautiful, told us about a recent collection they had at the Lowe’s Home Improvement store in Sandy Springs, Georgia, which is minutes from downtown Atlanta.
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Georgia's Got Recycling in the Bag
July 31st, 2012 in Girl Scouts Kroger plastic bag recycling Georgia Recycling Coalition Keep Thomas County Beautiful Trex Textraw A Bag's Life
Since launching A Bag's Life earlier this year, Georgia recycling advocates have been busy getting the word out that there is more to me than a one-time tote.

From the southernmost boarder in historic Thomasville, northwest to Rome at the Alabama line and into the heart of metropolitan Atlanta, folks are embracing the notion that I'm not just a pretty face. :-)
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