The letter invites the school principal to participate in the Plastic Film Challenge of 2016 organized by Live Thrive Atlanta’s Center for Hard to Recycle Materials in collaboration with other organizations. The goal is for the school to collect the most plastic film. The contest will take place from November 7-11 and the winning school will receive $350 for environmental programs, with second place receiving $250 and third place $150. The letter encourages the principal to have students, faculty, and staff gather plastic bags and packaging to play a part in their green dream.

1. Dear Principle ________ of ____[school name]_____,
We invite you to take part in our efforts to raise environmental awareness at your
school. Live Thrive Atlanta’s Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM), in
collaboration with Atlanta Public Schools, the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, and
Captain Planet, brings you the Plastic Film Challenge of 2016 in honor of Kids
Recycle Day!
The goal of the challenge is to be the school to collect the most plastic film of all the
participating Atlanta schools. We will calculate the amount based on how many
larger plastic bags are filled with the plastic film recyclables your community
gathers. Please encourage students, faculty, and staff to play a part in our green
dream!
Plastic film is essentially plastic bags and packaging that are clean, dry and empty.
Such items include newspaper sleeves, bread bags, cereal liners, product wrap, food
storage bags, produce bags, grocery bags, ice bags, dry cleaning bags, pellet bags,
case overwrap, packaging air pillows, salt bags, and LDPE/HDPE films.
The contest will take place from November 7 until November 11. Recycling bins will
be distributed to and picked up from each participating school. The winning school
will receive $350.00 to go towards environmental programs within the school
community. Second and third place schools will receive $250.00 and $150.00,
respectively, to go towards such environmental programs.
To celebrate contest participants and our collective recycling efforts, CHaRM will
host Kid’s Recycle Day on Saturday, November 12 at our center in Grant Park at
1110 Hill Street, where the Plastic Film Challenge winners will be announced.
To sign up and participate, please follow this link by September 23: _____
Let’s unite to teach today’s children how they are a part of everything, and how they
can make a difference through simple actions of awareness.
Looking forward to your positive involvement,
________________