Kids Retrieve Almost 40,000 Plastic Bags in Terrific Bid to Earn Free Fun
by Kenny Luna, North Babylon, NY on 08. 1.08
In a terrific promotion we can only hope will lead to more creative thinking, Rye Playland in Westchester, NY recently held a promotion where every child that turned in 100 plastic bags for recycling received free admission to the park that day.
All told, the kids put together some 39,995 plastic bags as they worked their way through the turnstiles in search of a good time at one of the most historic amusement parks in the country.
And while we recently highlighted a high school student who recently came up with a way to make plastic bags decompose in just three months time, the truth is that simple actions like this not only go a long way towards cleaning up the local environment but help educate kids, their parents and the public about what a positive contribution they can make by limiting the use of plastic bags.
So hats off to the folks who run Rye Playland, perhaps those at Six Flags will take the hint and come up with something similar?
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At Six Flags you used to be able to get a half priced ticket for bringing in just one coke can... nothing to do with recycling, though.
It pains me how much recyclable stuff gets thrown out, and I'm glad Rye Playland is making recycling fun for the next generation. I just hope there are also people out their educating kids to recycle because it is right, and not just because it rewards them directly.
My question is: what did Rye Playland do with all the bags they collected? I'm really hoping they didn't just throw them out...
Yes, I would like to know what they did with them too. I can think of a few things...
However, it is a great idea, and I will mention that to my son's school along with other items good for recycling that the schools are using and wasting tons of.