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EarthDay Celebration in Oak Ridge

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Oak Ridge will be celebrating EarthDay on Saturday, April 25th from 11am to 6pm. The OR EarthDay web site describes the event at:
“A free, family-friendly celebration with the mission to
Educate, Encourage, and Empower citizens
to create a sustainable community.”
The KRC will have a booth at the event, and we will be collecting tennis shoes for recycling. [...]

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Recycle Your Old Shoes

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

As part of the Nike ReUse A Shoe program, the KRC will be collecting 200 pairs of tennis shoes during the month of April. The shoes will be recycled into materials used for sports surfaces like basketball courts, tennis courts, and running tracks.
Each year millions of pairs of shoes are placed into landfills. This is [...]

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