Marcal offers small steps for a greener future
While world leaders, scientists, and activists meet in Copenhagen to work towards a global climate change agreement, there are still steps that we can take here at home. Marcal, a leading producer of recycled paper products, has created Recycling Lesson Plans for teachers K-12.
Marcal has been making recycled paper products since 1950. The company has been using all of the paper collected curbside, in office blue bins, and in paper recycling dumpsters to make toilet paper, paper towels, napkins and facial tissues for over half a century.
The company’s website has an “Our Community” section where you can get tips for living greener, take the Pledge for a Greener Earth, and sign up for coupons. With all of the press, pro and con, that has circulated over the last few years about the need to preserve our forests, cut down on our carbon emissions and fight global warming, providing green tips and a community feel to pull in customers is only common sense.
Every major manufacturer of items as diverse as cars and beer are touting their green credentials. Many of those same companies that are now advertising their strong environmental policies like Ford, and GM are only recent converts having fought tighter governmental regulations for decades.
It’s refreshing to find a company that has been at the forefront of recycling for over half a century offering Recycling Lesson Plans. There are four age appropriate plans aimed at elementary, middle and high school students that can be downloaded by teachers and administrators. The lesson plans contain:
-- Hands-on environmental activities, projects, andgames to educate and encourage recycling, reductionand reuse of waste materials -- Background information highlighting facts aboutwaste, deforestation, recycling and climate change -- Interactive discussion guides with suggestedenvironmental topics -- Recommended reading material and additionalonline resources
Of course, these lesson plans are a form of advertising
as well as education, just as Dr Pepper’s scholarship
fund is. You can choose to buy the product or not while
still appreciating the companies altruism.
As the talks in Copenhagen continue with the inevitable
political posturing and tension between Governments,
NGOs, environmental groups, and industry, there are still
small steps being taken here at home to alter our carbon
footprint. Quietly, effectively, changing the world one
student at a time.
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