Paper Retriever Kicks Off Houston Paper Drive Challenge for Earth Day

HOUSTON, April 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Paper Retriever, a community paper-recycling program, today announced a 24-hour paper drive in Houston aimed at encouraging community members to be good stewards of the environment while also supporting their community by recycling through Paper Retriever bins.  

The paper drive will take place from 10 a.m. on April 21 to 10 a.m. on April 22 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. The winning school will receive $2,500 that can be used for worthy projects such as textbooks, playground refurbishment, field trips and more.

Four Houston area schools will pair off and compete against each other in the paper drive: Maurice L. Wolfe Elementary School (Katy School District) will face off against Nottingham Elementary School (Spring Branch School District), and Armand Bayou Elementary School (Clear Creek School District)  will face Frazier Elementary School (Pasedena School District).

"We are thrilled to participate in the paper drive challenge, engage in a little friendly competition and are working hard to collect as much paper as possible," said Rhonda Parmer, principal of Frazier Elementary. "This has been a great year for environmental awareness and action at our school. If we win, we would use the funds to support our science club that works on real- life problem solving to improve our school and community by designing vegetable gardens, creating compost piles and planting trees."

Two local businesses have agreed to host bins for the schools on neutral ground. Maurice L. Wolfe Elementary and Nottingham Elementary's bins will be at Burlington Coat Factory, located at 14411 Westheimer Road, and Armand Bayou Elementary School and Frazier Elementary School's bins will be placed at Home Depot, located at 18251 Gulf Freeway.

"Earth Day is the perfect time to encourage, engage and educate students and community members about the benefits of recycling, " said Darryl Lambert, area manager for Paper Retriever in Houston. "Our hope is that the Earth Day paper drive challenge not only excites the student bodies of the four participating elementary schools but also encourages others throughout Houston to simply recycle their newspapers, junk mail and other recyclable paper in our green and yellow bins in order to support those schools."

Paper Retriever is a simple recycling program that directly benefits the community as well as the environment. Schools, churches and other nonprofit organizations in cities across the country place distinctive green and yellow Paper Retriever bins in highly visible areas outside their organizations where members of the community and the organization itself can donate their recyclable paper. The nonprofit organizations are then paid based on the tonnage that their bin collects; those funds can be used for textbooks, playground repair, even school field trips or other programs.

About Paper Retriever

Paper Retriever is a simple paper-recycling program that directly benefits the community as well as the environment. Schools, churches and other nonprofit organizations house green and yellow Paper Retriever bins for members of the community to fill with recyclable paper goods. The nonprofit organizations are then paid for the amount of paper they collect. There are over 18,000 Paper Retriever locations, and over 26,000 Paper Retriever bins are hosted in 23 major metropolitan areas across the United States. In 2009, materials recycled through Paper Retriever generated more than $3.8 million for over 15,000 nonprofit organizations. Paper Retriever is a subsidiary program of AbitibiBowater. For more information, visit www.paperretriever.com or head to www.facebook.com/paperretriever.

SOURCE Paper Retriever

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