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Event honors Earth Day

Thousands of pounds of paper recycled

WARREN — Thousands of pounds of paper material that was likely to end up in a landfill was instead shredded and collected for recycling Monday at the Tribune Chronicle.

“This is a fantastic project, a fantastic way to celebrate Earth Day. Look at all of this,” said Fred Black of Bazetta, pointing to dozens of large boxes filled with books, magazines and newspapers. “What would happen if the Tribune (Chronicle) wasn’t making it easy to collect like this? Probably into a landfill. People can be too lazy to recycle, but this makes it easy.”

The newspaper also had Protect-n-Shred, which took in more than 9,000 pounds of paper to shred, said Sue Shafer, community events coordinator at the Tribune Chronicle.

The paper will be recycled with River Valley Recycling, which will make a donation to the Tribune Chronicle’s Newspaper in Education Literacy Program, Shafer said.

The Earth Day free recycling and shredding event, now in its ninth year, is a reminder of how important recycling is every day, said Ted Snyder, Tribune Chronicle general manager.

“Earth Day is a reminder of how important, what a great need we have for recycling. It is something we should be doing every day,” Snyder said. “As a newspaper, putting so much paper out there, it is nice to be able to take some of that back.”

Joan Krivanek of Champion said she lost her husband six years ago, and is still going through things to give away and get rid of. She took two loads to recycle.

“I loved my husband dearly. He read a lot and was very intelligent. But now I’ve got books and books and Consumer Reports guides stacked around. Going through the things, I think about him. I talk to him. He could fix anything. But I got stuck hauling all of this,” Krivanek said, smiling.

Mark Hughes of Warren brought many of his late father’s books.

But Hughes was sure to hold on to old family Bibles, sets of Charles Dickens’ work and military books that belonged to the World War II veteran.

Black said he gets disappointed when he sees recycling centers overflowing with garbage and worries communities will get sick of sorting trash from recycling and get rid of them.

“But recycling is so important. We have to teach the children to do it and do it right,” Black said.

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