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Wis. School Recycles More Than 6,000 Phonebooks
Waters Elementary School in Fond du Lac, Wis. won $500 after collecting 6,170 phone books in the AT&T Real Yellow Pages Phone Book Recycling Challenge. These directories will be recycled by Waste Management into new phone books and other products.
But this recycling contest also has a reuse component as AT&T is providing separate phone books for the winners to build a recycled paper castle at Lakeside Park on June 12. The Waters’ students will also receive Project ReDirectory T-shirts.
This is the first year that AT&T has held a phone book recycling contest in Wisconsin and provided students six weeks to … read more
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