ALPHA EARTH
(YOUTH
ENVIROMENTAL PROGRAM)
An Alpha
Connection Youth & Family Services Program
A CALIFORNIA
Barron Wilson, Environmental
Director
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Services. All Rights Reserved
ALPHA EARTH
(YOUTH
ENVIROMENTAL PROGRAM)
Alpha Earth engages young people as active citizens
who improve the environment and their communities now and in the
future.
We do so by training and supporting youth in program and activities that
enable them to lead community action projects focused on creating sustainable
solutions to local environment issues in
For example, an Alpha Earth class may decide that they want to clean up a local
park strewn with litter. Cleaning up the park is an admirable task, but it does
not ensure the park will be clean the next week. Alpha Earth encourages young
people to look at the root cause of the issue and focus on creative solutions
that address a public policy or community practice. Alpha Earth students have will
work with city councils to enact better litter laws, groups will also conduct campaigns
to instill community pride and discourage future littering, as well as working
with officials to get more trash cans installed in the park. Our largest focus
will be the removal of abandoned tires in the Desert Region and our response
team for illegal dumping.
In the end, Alpha Earth will be a transformative experience for youth. Students,
parents and the community.
What kind of projects will Alpha Earth YEP provide?
Examples of
projects that a YEP will support:
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Creating a recycling program in your community.
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Cleaning up a creek or natural area site.
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educating people in the San Bernardino County Communities about alternative transportation
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demonstrating to people in our community the benefits of
composting and pesticide free yards
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Investigating an issue, exploring possible solutions and
communicating what you've found out to people in your community.
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Providing a response team equipped with youth power to provide
litter removal, and illegal dumping clean up.
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And many other creative ideas!
Another project initiated will be the "Ecology in Focus"
photography competition that will be held quarterly. Young photographers throughout
Specific Request
Partnership
with
Simply
stated, recycling is good for the environment. It is the responsibility of
every individual to do all they can today in order to insure the health of our
planet tomorrow. We imagine that the County Administrative Component must go
through thousand of cartridges a year. Alpha Earth feels that a recycling
partnership will enable them to operate their YOUTH ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM and
establish a more ECO-HAPPY county.
YEP FACT…..
*80% of all printer
and fax cartridges (around 40 million) end up as landfill. These items are made
with petroleum based plastics which are not biodegradable.
Alpha
Earth makes recycling these empty cartridges, easy, educational and
environmentally beneficial.
We will
accept most cartridge models, and ensure their distribution to quality
remanufactures (Staples Inc.) who refurbish and refill them for resale. This
process conserves raw materials and the energy needed to produce a new product.
It helps reduce solid waste, and gives the end user consumer an incentive to recycle,
by creating a product of comparable quality at a lower price than the original
manufacturers.
Some Cartridge Statistics
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This
year, only 20% of these petroleum based, plastic cartridges will be recycled.
The remaining 80% will end up in landfill.
·
The
average used toner cartridge weighs about 3lbs.. It is composed of 40% plastic,
40% metal and 20% other materials. The plastic is made of engineering-grade
polymers which take over 1,000 years to decompose.97 % of these combined
components can be recycled or reused.
·
3
quarts of oil are used to produce every toner cartridge. 2 ounces of oil are
used to produce every inkjet cartridge.
·
The
recovery and reuse of empty cartridges diverts millions of cubic feet of
material from waste disposal, saving us millions of tax dollars needed to pay
for additional landfill management.
JOIN OUR TEAM
Yes I would like to become a partner with Alpha
Earth, my household, family, organization or business would like to donate our
used cartridges in an effort to help preserve our community and Earth. For
further information about our Alpha Earth Program, please email Editha Harden
at editha@alphaconnection.org
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