Molina to Launch 'Green Bag for a Clean Earth' Initiative at East L.A. Schools

 

 

 

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GLORIA MOLINA TO LAUNCH ‘GREEN BAG FOR A CLEAN

EARTH’ INITIATIVE AT EAST L.A. SCHOOLS

 

3^rd Canvas Bag Contest Follows Florence-Firestone, Valinda Efforts

Saving Approximately 11,000 Plastic Bags from Local Waterways & Landfills

 

EAST LOS ANGELES (March 16, 2010)—Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Gloria Molina will enlist approximately 300 third and fourth graders from Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School and City Terrace Elementary School in East L.A. to launch the third phase of her “Green Bag for a Clean Earth” initiative this Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 10 a.m. in partnership with over 4,000 students from ten LAUSD elementary schools.

 

WHO:               Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina

                        Sonia Diaz, Heal the Bay

                        The L.A. County Dept. of Public Works’ “Brag About Your Bag Team”

                        Rafael Escobar, Kennedy Elementary School principal

                        Elaine Fujiu, City Terrace Elementary School principal

                        300 Kennedy Elementary School students

                        “The Bag Monster” and the Chivas USA “Chivas Fighter” mascot

 

WHAT:              “Green Bag for a Clean Earth” Initiative Launch

 

WHEN:             Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 10 a.m.

 

WHERE:           Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School

                        4010 East Ramboz Drive

                        East Los Angeles, California 90063

 

BACKGROUND:  Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Chair Gloria Molina will kick-start the third phase of her “Green Bag for a Clean Earth” initiative to enlist a new generation of “Earth Defenders” to reduce their use of plastic bags—which notoriously pollute our waterways and overload our landfills.  East L.A. students will get a visit from The Bag Monster and receive “Reduce, Recycle, Reuse” prize cards.  Those who amass the most stickers on it from March 18 to May 18 each time they or their parent shops with a canvas bag instead of a plastic bag at local El Super, Super A Foods, Superior Grocers, or Top Value Mart grocery stores will receive prizes.  Teachers representing classrooms with the top prize card utilization rates from each of the ten participating school districts will win a $100 gift card.  (In the Summer of 2009, Supervisor Molina began the first phase of this effort with over 1,450 Florence-Firestone students who prevented approximately 4,000 plastic bags from heading straight to the garbage.  In the Fall of 2009, Supervisor Molina started the second phase with over 3,800 Valinda students who saved close to 7,000 plastic bags from the trash.  Photos from the Valinda launch are at http://molina.lacounty.gov/pages/Photo%20Album/PA2009/Valinda%20canvas%20bags/photoablbum.html.)

 

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