Give a green gift
Birthdays and celebrations are always around the corner, and you may be wondering what to give your friends and family. Instead of recycling your empty milk carton, old magazine, or straw at the curb in Gwinnett County, reuse them to make the perfect homemade gift. Here’s how:

Step one: Save your milk or juice carton from your school lunch. Rinse it out and take it home.

Step two: Cut out pictures from old magazines and paste them onto the outside of the milk carton to decorate it.

Step three: Put dry potting soil into the carton. Fill it about one-third of the way, and drop in your favorite flower or plant seeds.

Step four: Stick a straw that would otherwise go to a landfill into the soil to give your plant something to grow on.

Step five: Staple the top closed, but leave the straw sticking out.

Step six: Make a card from paper that you would otherwise recycle to go along with your potted plant.
Kidsville News puzzles

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Fun facts about recycling in America:

Americans use over 80 billion aluminum soda cans every year
Americans use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away
Every month, Americans throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper.
All of these jars are recyclable!
Source: A Recycling Revolution