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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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Arthur Ashe Recycles
May 2nd, 2013 in Earth Day 2013 reduce reuse recycle plastic bags New Orleans Arthur Ashe Charter School
Earth Day 2013
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Arthur Ashe Students Celebrate Earth Week By Recycling Plastic Bags
May 2nd, 2013 in Earth Day 2013 reduce reuse recycle plastic bags New Orleans Arthur Ashe Charter School
Students rewarded with Trex bench for learning how to recycle
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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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Spinning a Giant Web and other America Recycles Day Tales
November 30th, 2012 in America Recycles Day Corpus Christi Kroger Weis Markets Hilex Poly Texas Retail Association Trex reduce reuse recycle plastic bags Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful
Much like its big sibling Earth Day, America Recycles Day has evolved beyond its single-day roots to become a month-long celebration of environmental stewardship.

Thousands of local events were held across the country in November, ranging from shred-a-thons, electronics recycling, clothing donation drives, prescription drug take-back programs and yes — plastic bag collections!
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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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Oley Girl Scouts Recognized for Bag Collecting Project
August 18th, 2012 in Oley Valley Middle School Girl Scout Troop 1645 Oley Pennsylvania plastic bag recycling Trex
By Jill E. Sheetz - Reading Eagle

8.17.12

Oley, PA - Girl Scout Troop 1645 of Oley was recognized recently for collecting 61,852 plastic bags for recycling and reuse by Trex Co., headquartered in Winchester, Va. The company, one of the nation's leading manufacturers of wood alternative products for decking materials, puts forth an annual challenge to the entire country to see which participating organization can collect the most plastic bags.
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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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