Earth Day Required

    On April 22nd, millions of Americans across the country took part in celebrating the 23rd annual Earth Day. Activities such as parades, recycling contests, and tree planting projects were held in honor of this day. What many people do not realize is that in order to help save our precious planet, we all must put forth our best effort in making each day Earth Day.
    Here in O'Neill this can be accomplished by taking part in the local recycling program. Every second and fourth Saturday of each month from 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., clean and prepared recyclable can be dropped offat the county shed in O'Neill. recyclable such as glass containers, plastic, milk jugs, aluminum cans, cardboard, tin cans, and newspapers can be taken there to be recycled.
    Many of our priceless resources and energy can be saved by recycling. If every American recycled their Sunday newspaper, 500,000 trees could be saved. The energy saved by recycling on aluminum can or glass bottle could operate a television for three hours. Americans throw away enough aluminum every three months to build our entire commercial air fleet and 2.5 million bottles every hour. Just think about how many hours of TV you could watch if all of those cans and bottles had been recycled. If the pilgrims had aluminum cans, they would still be around today along with environmentally hazardous plastic rings which hold a six pack together.
    The average American produces 3.5 pounds a year. This figure could be greatly reduced if we all did our part in recycling and making each day Earth Day

--Lisa Weber