The milky way
The
Regina and District Food Bank is milking a recycling program for all
it’s worth to provide healthy nutrition for young children.More than
150 companies and organizations have joined a food bank program that
recycles inkjet and laser cartridges and uses the proceeds to provide
milk, formula and baby food to the food bank’s youngest clients.Almost
half the food bank’s 10,000 clients are children and studies have shown
daily consumption of milk plays an important role in building healthy
bones and teeth as children grow.Grand & Toy and the University of
Regina this week joined the effort, which aims to eventually provide
fresh milk to up to 4,000 school-age children whose families rely on
the food bank.Each recycled cartridge can purchase up to four litres of
milk and the university alone generates about 2,500 cartridges a
year.Food banks across the country are involved in the thINK Food
project — allowing companies to safely dispose of old cartridges and
give something tangible to the most vulnerable in their communities.