Northminster Recycles

You've no doubt seen Northminster's blue recyling bins with the circle-of-arrows logo. Do you use the bins, or do you pass them by because you don't know what can go inside? Northminster recycles many items through its curbside service. Here's a partial list of acceptable items: bulletins and similar paper, plastic containers labeled 1 through 7 (look for the recycling logo on the item), plastic bags, aluminum and tin cans, glass bottles and jars, cardboard, and boxboard (e.g., cookie or cracker boxes).

When recycling, just remember a few important points: separate your trash from your recyclables; don't put Styrofoam in with recyclables (Styrofoam is difficult to recycle, so try to limit your use); rinse everything, so you won't attract ants or other undesirable elements.

Northminster has been recycling paper, as well as communion cups, for several years. We're ready to take our recycling efforts a step further. Please use the blue bins!

Green tip: Your iced-coffee cup from Starbucks is a number 5. Recycle your rinsed cup via curbside service or at a recycling site that accepts plastics 1 through 7. 

Recycling Cardboard  

Any kind of cardboard, not just corrugated, can be recycled at the regular Broad Ripple Park recycling site.  It can be entered off of Evanston Avenue.

WHERE CAN I GO TO RECYCLE 'STUFF'?

To find out where to recycle 'stuff' like household batteries, plastics #5 & #6, Styrofoam and other less com mon recyclables, check out www.kibi.org/ and go to their Recycle & Reuse Guide.  You'd be amazed what you don't have to throw in the trash.  We'll feature more ideas in the coming months.

About the Green Stewardship Group

The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) "recognizes and accepts restoring creation as a central concern of the church, to be incorporated into its life and mission at every level." (Restoring Creation for Ecology and Justice, report, 1990)

The Green Stewardship Group is part of the Mission Team, which meats at 7:00 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month. Please join us. For more information, contact Nancy Moritz at  or Linda Furuness at .