An estimated 200 volunteers, including the entire Saint Louis School varsity and junior varsity football teams, took part in today’s Aloha çÄina Earth Day community cleanup and recycling drive at the campus.

Keliçi Cobb was among the players helping to collect tons of reusable or recyclable items.
“It’s good for the team and it’s a good way to give back to the community,” said Cobb, 17, who collected batteries, gathered donated clothes and loaded green waste into a waiting truck.
Aloha çÄina drives are held once a month at various locations statewide. The drives are popular because they bring together a wide variety of companies that specialize in recycling or preparing to recycle specific items that would otherwise take up space in a landfill.
Yesterday, the long, uphill entry road to the campus was lined with a dozen different stations, each designated to collect specific items.
Near the bottom of the hill, volunteers collected oils, telephone books, bicycles, batteries and other, smaller items. At the top, beefy football players unloaded green waste, refrigerators, computer equipment, tires and the like.
Proceeds from redeemable plastics, glass, paper and cardboard will go to the football program. Many of the still-usable items — like clothes or bicycles — will either be given to charity, while other items, like computers, will be broken down into their component plastic, glass or metal parts for recycling.
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