November 6, 2015 at 2:08 p.m.
Northland Pines High School Physics class accepts a $775 Green Gift from Cellcom
Northland Pines High School Physics class accepts a $775 Green Gift from Cellcom
Northland Pines Farm to School is a garden-based nutrition program serving eight area schools in the Northland Pines School District.
"The program teaches sustainability and conservation through organic gardening principles, local foods, composting and utilizing recycled materials," the school district said in a press release. "Students get to practice these things in a hands-on way, reinforcing lessons, to make them habits for a lifetime. The Green Gift from Cellcom will fund the construction of two solar dehydrators to preserve garden harvest for winter consumption."
"This project will teach conservation of energy, as well as solar principles, while helping students eat the healthy local foods that they have grown," said Jasmyn Schmidt, Americorps Farm to School Nutrition Educator. "We also hope to supply some dried local foods to our local food pantry, in addition to the fresh food that we are able to donate in the summer months. By teaching children at a young age what their food involves, and the impact it has on the environment, we are helping to create future informed consumers, as well as healthier children and families."
A total of $34,675 was distributed to 31 green organizations in Cellcom's service area through the 2015 Green Gifts program.
Since 2004 Cellcom has offered a cellphone recycling program where customers can bring in their old or unwanted phones to be reused and recycled. Cellcom sends the phones to recyclers who in return send money to Cellcom for the materials that were saved from the phones. Cellcom has always donated this money back to local non-profits. In 2010, Cellcom launched the Green Gift program, donating their recycling funds to green non-profit initiatives in an effort to complete the green cycle that starts with consumers being environmentally-conscious and donating their devices.
Other Green Gifts went to non-profits throughout Cellcom's service area.
The company's recycling program has generated over $229,175 for local charities over the past 12 years.
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