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 When shopping--BYOB--Bring your own bag!

Don't forget our reusable St. Lucas grocery bags!  They are great for groceries, tote bags and gift bags. Get them in the church office anytimethey are open or between services the first Sunday of the month in the Social Hall for $3.00 a piece.  

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Ongoing Events:

Paper recycling and  aluminim can recycling bins
on the parking lot.

Cell phone, print cartridge and plastic
grocery bag recycling in the
recycling corner of the social hall.

 

 Goals for 2010:

1. More education--both for adults and children


2.Elimination of styrofoam from St. Lucas

3. Single Stream Recycling

4. All paper products in the kitchen will be compostable--and we will be composting them.

5. Energy audits will allow savings in money and energy at St. Lucas

6. A larger committee

7. Greener attitude at St. Lucas

 Doing Some Planting?

Recycle the Plant Containers!

Plastic pot recycling--now through September

 


Plastics Accepted:
Cell packs
Hanging baskets
Trays
Pots of all sizes

Not Accepted:
No household plastic
No food plastic
No clay pots
No soil
No metal hangers
No plastic bags

You can help reduce the amount of horticultural waste in landfills by recycling your plastic garden pots, polystyrene cell packs and trays at the Garden and other locations throughout St. Louis City and County.

The Missouri Botanical Garden operates the most extensive public garden recycling program in the nation. The Plastic Pot Recycling program collected a record 130,000 pounds of horticultural waste in 2009.

To date, the Garden’s Plastic Pot Recycling program has saved over 800,000 pounds, or 400 tons, of plastic garden pots, cell packs and trays from landfills.

Recycle at the places below, or go to

http://mobot.org/plasticpotrecycling/default.asp

for more info.

Missouri Botanical Garden

Monsanto Center

4500 Shaw Boulevard

St. Louis MO 63110

(314) 577-9441

Rolling Ridge Garden Center

60 N. Gore

Webster Groves MO 63119

(314) 962-3311

 


 

Did you know?

The Environmental Committee serves you coffee and doughnuts every 3rd Sunday of the month in the Social Hall and washes your coffee mugs every Sunday.

 

Meeting Information
We are always looking for
more members--please join us!
We meet in the Library on the third
Tuesday of the month at 6:30pm.  No meeting in July- see you on August 17th.