Show children the way if recycling is to be an active part of their lives as adults. With that in mind, 70,000 copies of a recycling storybook were distributed Wednesday to schoolchildren throughout Hawai’i to mark the nationwide America Reycles
Show children the way if recycling is to be an active part of their lives as
adults. With that in mind, 70,000 copies of a recycling storybook were
distributed Wednesday to schoolchildren throughout Hawai’i to mark the
nationwide America Reycles Day.
“The Kolea, the Kahuli, the Honu and Kim:
An Adventure in Recycling, Reducing and Reusing” was presented to elementary
schools on Kaua’i and in the rest of the state as a joint effort by county,
city and state governments, businesses and non-profit, pro-recycling
organizations. Produced by the state Department of Business, Economic
Development and Tourism and reviewed by teachers, the book combines projects,
activities and its story with a simple, yet important goal: Encourage children
and their families to reuse and recycle packaging and other disposables that is
part of their everyday lives.
Efforts are underway on Kaua’i to expand its
paltry recycling programs into something meaningful and farther-reaching. To
that end, this week’s book experiment will have a happy ending if it helps
produce a generation of enthusiastic recyclers.
