Events promote recycling efforts

Spokane Regional Solid Waste System and America Recycles 2006 have several activities planned to mark America Recycles Day. This year’s campaign, which is the 10th annual, is “It All Comes Back to You.”

The public will be given a chance to win an Alaska cruise for two or a 24-speed youth bicycle by signing up for the Make The Pledge contest. Pledge forms are available at the poster exhibit in River Park Square or by visiting www.americarecycles.org for additional details. No purchase is necessary.

Events include:

Currently to Wednesday

Poster display will be in the River Park Square atrium on the second level. Posters feature the work of 30 student finalists (kindergarten through eighth grade) who entered the America Recycles Day poster contest.

Fifteen posters will be selected to appear in the Spokane Recycles 2007 calendar to be produced by Spokane Regional Solid Waste System and available in January.

Friday from 1 to 3 p.m.

Celebrate Recycling Day planned at Mobius. Youngsters will have an opportunity to make a piece of recycled paper, explore a worm bin, do a trash sort, investigate the magnetic properties of metals and check out recycled plastic pellets.

In addition, the Spokane Regional Solid Waste System will be collecting old athletic shoes for the Nike Reuse-a-Shoe program.

Open to public. Admission is $5.75 general admission (12-month-olds and younger are free); $4.75 for active military and senior citizens.

Tuesday at 5 p.m.

Spokane County poster winner recognition and proclamation event will be in the Spokane County Public Works Building, lower level. The 30 poster-contest finalists will be recognized at the Spokane County commissioners’ meeting. A reception for finalists and their families will follow at the Spokane County Health District Building in the auditorium, on the first floor.

For more information on any of the events, call the Spokane Regional Solid Waste System hotline at 625-6800 or go to www.solidwaste.org or www.americarecylesday.org.