GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL PLANS NEWSPAPER RECYCLING DAY

The Otahki Girl Scout Council will celebrate care for the Earth by recycling newspapers. They ask area residents to join in this project by bringing in newspapers to the BFI drop off bin at the Schnucks parking lot on Oct. 30. The papers will be collected from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. that day.

Newspapers can be recycled into cardboard boxes and many other products to help save trees, said Millie Turner of the Girl Scout Council.

"Recycling one ton of newspaper is the equivalent of one ton of paper made from about 17 trees," she said. "It conserves two to three cubic yards of landfill space; that's a box three feet tall, three feet wide, and six to nine feet long."

Persons are asked to bring in only news print. Magazines, junk mail or phonebooks are not acceptable. Newspapers should be placed in grocery bags or cardboard boxes without plastic bags, strings or rubber bands.