If you haven’t already heard, the Victory Workers 4H Club is temporarily taking over the plastic collection from Pittsfield Elementary School’s Parent Teacher Organisation. If you’re not familiar with the NexTrex recycling program, it’s a program where schools and nonprofits are challenged to gather 1,000 pounds of recyclable plastics, weigh them, upload the tallies online, turn them in to local retailers and hopefully receive a free bench if the goal is reached within a 12 month period! The Pittsfield community has been supporting this recycling endeavor since February, and they’ve already collected their 1,000 pounds, so jumping into this project was quite simple for us—but we’re still asking for the community’s help!
There are large collection bins for the plastic at Danis Supermarket, Bell Brothers Convenience Store, Pittsfield Elementary School, Pittsfield Middle High School, Josiah Carpenter Library and now at the Dowboro Farm Farmstand! As a result of the project already having a presence here in Pittsfield, our 4-H group has already collected and turned in OVER ONE HUNDRED POUNDS OF PLASTIC this month!
