Recycling Scholarships -- ADEQ Awards KHS Senior

ARIZONA - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has awarded $1,000 scholarships, as part of the ADEQ Recycling Scholarship Program, to ten high school seniors around the state, including Kathryn Ross of Kingman High School.

CONGRATULATIONS KIDS!

KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

Amen! Great Job!

Is this a state program or can it be intoduced & rolled out natinwide? scholarships are an excellent incentive when linked to recycling programs. Great idea for everyone. Youngsters benefit from receiving education funding and everyone else benefits from their recycling efforts.

Love Kingman wrote:

Is this a state program or can it be intoduced & rolled out natinwide? scholarships are an excellent incentive when linked to recycling programs. Great idea for everyone. Youngsters benefit from receiving education funding and everyone else benefits from their recycling efforts.

Worth checking into
Seems like a great program

Proud of Kingman wrote:

ARIZONA - Arizona Department of Environmental Quality has awarded $1,000 scholarships, as part of the ADEQ Recycling Scholarship Program, to ten high school seniors around the state, including Kathryn Ross of Kingman High School.
CONGRATULATIONS KIDS!
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

I agree
Great incentives for our children
New recycling facilities are up and running in Kingman!

Recent poll indicates at least 8 out of every 10 persons will use the new local recycling facilities

Let's all do our part and recycle when ever possible!

Thanks!
Jennifer O

It's great to see Kingman stepping up recycling efforts. The following example is from BHC where they are on a roll in a good way. If you live in BHC the following locations are up and running!

Tons of trash recycled in BHC program

Thursday, July 31, 2008 9:25 PM CDT

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BULLHEAD CITY - Bullhead City's drop-off recycling program has diverted 67.4 tons of recyclable products from the landfill during the first six months of the program.

Large recycling bins are located at Sam's Club, 600 Highway 95; River Gardens Plaza, 837 Hancock Road; and Wal-Mart, 2840 Highway 95.

The 2009 Arizona Recycling Scholarship Program sponsored by The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is offering 10 scholarships !$1,000 each to high school seniors as part of the 2009 program !

Recycling works! Great Job Folks!

Recycling paying off for Bullhead City

By NEIL YOUNG/The Daily News

Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:14 AM CDT



BULLHEAD CITY - The city of Bullhead City has been banking the money it's been getting from selling materials deposited at its three drop-off recycling centers since the program started in January.

“We get a check each month from Bulldog Disposal and Recycling,” said Brenda Richardson, Bullhead City administrative analyst,“and that money is put into a ‘park amenities' fund and the purpose of that is to give back to the community for their efforts in recycling.”

During the first eight months of the program, the city deposited $3,576 in the account. The fund was used to purchase 19 Rosewood trees for $2,459, according to Dave Heath, Bullhead City recreation director. The trees will be planted Saturday around the Ka-BOOM! Playground in Rotary Park as part of Make A Difference Day.

Since the recycling program began, 84 tons of paper, plastic bottles, steel and aluminum cans have been diverted from the landfill, according to Richardson.


In addition, the city is launching an internal waste paper recycling program in its buildings on Trane Road and Marina Boulevard. Each employee's desk will have a recycling container, Richardson said.“Once it's full, it'll be taken to another, larger roll-away cart.” The carts will be picked up by Bulldog. There's no money involved in this transaction, she said.

“Our drop-off recycling program is a pilot program and eventually we'd like to go to curbside recycling,” Richardson said. The program was started with two grants from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. A $25,000 grant covered its implementation and a $2,500 grant went toward publicizing the program. The larger grant was used to purchase four 20-yard recycling bins at $5,370 each.

The bins are located at Sam's Club, 600 Highway 95; River Gardens Plaza, 835 Hancock Road; and the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 2840 Highway 95.

Saw a picture of the brand new recycling bins rolled out for Kingmanites to use. its a great idea and lets fill em up!

Jennifer O wrote:

Recycling works! Great Job Folks!
Recycling paying off for Bullhead City
By NEIL YOUNG/The Daily News
Sunday, October 19, 2008 12:14 AM CDT
BULLHEAD CITY - The city of Bullhead City has been banking the money it's been getting from selling materials deposited at its three drop-off recycling centers since the program started in January.
“We get a check each month from Bulldog Disposal and Recycling,” said Brenda Richardson, Bullhead City administrative analyst,“and that money is put into a ‘park amenities' fund and the purpose of that is to give back to the community for their efforts in recycling.”
During the first eight months of the program, the city deposited $3,576 in the account. The fund was used to purchase 19 Rosewood trees for $2,459, according to Dave Heath, Bullhead City recreation director. The trees will be planted Saturday around the Ka-BOOM! Playground in Rotary Park as part of Make A Difference Day.
Since the recycling program began, 84 tons of paper, plastic bottles, steel and aluminum cans have been diverted from the landfill, according to Richardson.
In addition, the city is launching an internal waste paper recycling program in its buildings on Trane Road and Marina Boulevard. Each employee's desk will have a recycling container, Richardson said.“Once it's full, it'll be taken to another, larger roll-away cart.” The carts will be picked up by Bulldog. There's no money involved in this transaction, she said.
“Our drop-off recycling program is a pilot program and eventually we'd like to go to curbside recycling,” Richardson said. The program was started with two grants from the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. A $25,000 grant covered its implementation and a $2,500 grant went toward publicizing the program. The larger grant was used to purchase four 20-yard recycling bins at $5,370 each.
The bins are located at Sam's Club, 600 Highway 95; River Gardens Plaza, 835 Hancock Road; and the Wal-Mart Supercenter at 2840 Highway 95.

Making money while cleaning up the city not a bad deal in my book

Love Kingman wrote:

Saw a picture of the brand new recycling bins rolled out for Kingmanites to use. its a great idea and lets fill em up!

Me too
BHC already banked almost $5,000 just from recycling so we make money while keeping our city that much cleaner
Love it ! And every city in America should have a program like this

Jennifer O wrote:

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Me too
BHC already banked almost $5,000 just from recycling so we make money while keeping our city that much cleaner
Love it ! And every city in America should have a program like this

Kingman's new recycling program is a huge success and thanks to all the fine folks who participate. Keep america clean!

Program is still going strong! Let's kepp up the good work and make the world that much cleaner

It's a great program Jennifer and a way to make a few extra bucks just transporting things you would normally throw away over to the recycling facility. Common sense idea but works extremely well

Every couple months I pocket at least $30 to $40 extra bucks from recycling. Not getting rich but it's not a bad little chunk of change considering it was stuff to be thrown out anyway.

Love Kingman wrote:

Every couple months I pocket at least $30 to $40 extra bucks from recycling. Not getting rich but it's not a bad little chunk of change considering it was stuff to be thrown out anyway.

That's one or two Christmas Presents under the tree!