Did someone in your family receive a new electronic gadget for the holidays? What will you do with your old electronics? It’s estimated that less than 10% of all electronics are recycled in the United States. More than 1 Million cell phones are no longer being used. If we recycled all of them we would save enough energy to power 18,500 US households for a YEAR! In addition, we would save more than 158,200,000,000 gallons of water from potential contamination (due to the harmful elements in cell phones which can leach into ground water if not recycled properly). Don’t keep or throw away your old electronics; help the
environment and raise money for Newcastle Elementary at the same time.

There is a blue plastic bin marked “Recycling Fundraiser” in the front hall of the school where you can drop off your old cellular phone, digital camera, laptop, tablet, MP3 player, handheld game player, game console, GPS device, radar detector, eReader, or Texas Instrument graphing calculator. We receive some money for each of these things, working or not.

Any questions? Contact Susan Crow at edsusancrow@msn.com or Landy Bowers at landylu@yahoo.com