and everyone else too! We’re coming up on April 22 and you know what that means - Earth Day.  I am lucky to have people in my life, like my husband and my aunt, who are good examples of what a single person can do to be a good steward to our planet.  The one person I’d like to celebrate though, is one who has had the most impact on my life in general: my mother.

Recycling. It’s one of the three “R”s.  Something everyone can do to keep more trash out of landfills. In my own personal experience, Oklahoma is not the most recycling friendly place in larger cities, let alone small towns. But guess what my mom did… just that. In little old small town Oklahoma, she started a recycling program at her elementary school. Because of her efforts, almost everyone has gotten on board and started collecting their recyclable materials. Can you imagine how much recycling, especially paper, that a school can generate? She even sometimes spends over hour going around and collecting the recycling from the classrooms to put outside in the bins - unless she can talk some second graders into helping her.  And it’s obvious that the fruits of her labor aren’t going unnoticed: one day at snack time someone brought cookies in plastic packaging and it was thrown into the trash, which prompted one kindergartner to be very concerned and ask “shouldn’t we recycle that?”.  It’s not like she just “talks the talk” either, she recycles at home too. I think it’s a great example of what one person can do to make a change in their community. Just think if every elementary school had one person who started recycling….

So here’s to you mom!  

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