Activities can be done on an individual or club basis. Group activities can possibly have a great community-wide impact. Some environmentally-friendly activities club members could consider include planting trees in the city park, adopting a roadway or park for a cleanup project, and recycling items such as aluminum, newspaper, office paper, glass and plastic. The Department of Environmental Quality has a website with a recyclers list. The list, organized alphabetically by county name, gives recyclers locations throughout the state where certain materials can be dropped off to be recycled.
Recycled glass uses only two-thirds the energy needed to manufacture glass from scratch.
For every soft drink bottle that is recycled, enough energy is conserved to run a television set for 90 minutes. State 4-H'ers also can help out by conserving their use of water and trying to reduce the amount of garbage they generate. The average American throws out his own weight in packaging every month. Written by Trisha Gedon, Communications Specialist, Agricultural Communications Services, OSU Oklahoma State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture, State and Local Governments cooperating. Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service offers its programs to all eligible persons regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age or disability and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.