To the editor:

America Recycles Day is a nationwide event sponsored by Keep America Beautiful, designed to raise awareness of recycling in every community.

Brown County is an affiliate group of KAB, Keep Brown County Beautiful, whose goals are to educate our younger residents that recycling is a very important component in their communities and their responsibility is to be good stewards for future generations. KBCB works cooperatively with the Brown County Schools and supports each school recycling team.

Never heard of the Recycling Team? Each school has recycle bins in their classroom. The recycling teams collects, sorts and delivers the recycling to either the Recycle Center or the Recycling Satellite at each of the schools. The elementary school teams up with older students and with the kindergartners so the younger students learn that it is everyone’s job to recycle. The Nashville McDonald’s has provided an award for each member of the recycle teams to show them appreciation of their hard work.

The KBCB team will be distributing reusable grocery totes at the Brown County IGA on Thursday, Nov. 15 in hopes that the community will see the waste in the plastic bags. The Recycle Center does not accept plastic grocery bags, and finding locations that do has become hard and has increased roadside litter.

Need to know what you can recycle? Visit browncountyrecycles.org for a complete list or call the Recycle Center 812-988-0140 anytime 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Keep Brown County Beautiful (submitted by Phil Stephens)