Scouting, Volume 71, Number 4, September 1983 Page: 62
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For 10 years
Troop 1 of
North Caldwell,
New Jersey, has
run a drive-in
trash depot for
collecting paper,
glass, and
aluminum. As
a conservation
service to their
town, and
as a troop
money-earner,
the project
has been an
outstanding
success.
(Right) Clipboard in
hand, Scoutmaster Tom
Potenzone keeps a tally
of incoming scrap.
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RECKLING
THE TRASHMEH OF TROOP 1
BY BOB
PETERSON
Photographs by
Leo Choplin
Come hail, high water, or holiday, the
first Saturday of every month finds the
Scouts of Troop 1 of North Caldwell, N.J.,
assembled on the faculty parking lot at
West Essex Regional High School. It's their time
to play trashmen.
In 10 years of collecting newspapers, other
paper products, glass, and aluminum for recycling,
the troop has never missed a first Saturday.
They've been there on the Fourth of July and New
Year's Day, when the sun shone, when it rained
cats and dogs, and when snow lay on the ground
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ankle deep. That consistency, say the leaders, is the
secret of success for recycling collections.
And they are successful. In a typical year. Troop
1 gathers 140 tons of paper, 47 tons of glass, and
nearly a ton of aluminum, and enriches its treasury
by $4,500.
Troop 1 is not unique, of course, in collecting
scrap for recycling. The High Adventure and
Conservation Service of the Boy Scouts of
America reports that thousands of others—per-
haps 25 percent of the nation's 55,000 troops—
have collections, although not all do it on a regular
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