Do you have extra pencils and pens? Maybe gift wrap and bows you’re not going to use? All done with alkaline batteries?
These and other items are being collected during April, designated as Earth Month, by Homewood businesses. Everything will be properly recycled.
Here’s a list:
- Art 4 Soul, 18135 Harwood Ave. — useable markers, pencils, pens.
- Gaia’s Market & Refillery, 1948 Ridge Road — candy wrappers, pop tabs, Styrofoam.
- Homewood Dental Studio, 1924 Hickory Road — used oral hygiene products and packaging.
- Homewood Science Center, 18022 Dixie Highway — gift wrap, bags, bows, ribbon.
- Homewood Public Library, 17917 Dixie Highway — alkaline batteries.
- Jonathan Kane Salon, 18065 Harwood Ave. — hair color bottles, tubes, gloves.
- LaBanque Hotel, 2034 Ridge Road — sewing notions, fabric.
- Loulou Belle, 2049 Ridge Road — beauty packaging (no aerosol, nail polish or remover).
- Open Access, 900 Maple Ave. — used art supplies, such as paint, brushes, stamps, sponges, sketchbooks.
- Primo’s, 2057 Ridge Road — crayons in any condition.
- RockShoppe60430, 18109 Dixie Highway — cassettes, 8-track and video tapes.
- Serendipity Yoga and Wellness, 18300 Dixie Highway — empty prescription bottles.
- Thomas Photographic, 18676 Dixie Highway — ink and toner cartridges.
- UpsaDaisy Boutique, 18100 Martin Ave. — CDs and DVDs.
- The Village Door, 2019 Ridge Road — corks.
- The Villager Gift Shop, 2007 Ridge Road — envelopes of all sizes.
Recycle Homewood is sponsored by Hoekstra Heating & Air Conditioning, McDermott Law Offices PLLC, Gaia’s Market & Refillery and the Homewood Business Association.
Earth Month is an extension of the first Earth Day celebrated in April 1970. It was a response to events of the 1960s that stunned the country, including the Santa Barbara oil spill and the polluted Cuyahoga River that caught fire in 1969.
Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson established the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, to bring to light the issues of environmental responsibility and his hope was to move the public to recognize the need to work to keep the earth healthy.
“It was on that day that Americans made it clear that they understood and were deeply concerned over the deterioration of our environment and the mindless dissipation of our resources,” Nelson told an interviewer years later.