NMS Students Team Up

With Charter To Recycle Tapes

Charter Communications’ CTV-21 and Team Green Media, a group comprising Newtown Middle School eighth graders Kyle Humber, Ryan Sholtes, Christian Soderquist, and Dan Spillane, are hoping residents will make use of the fourth annual Recycle Your Tapes campaign.

This year Team Green Media formed to complete the students’ required eighth grade project, and the group approached Charter Communications to bring tape recycling to NMS.

During the month of February Team Green Media will be distributing boxes, promoting the importance of environmental consciousness, and collecting tapes and disks. They want NMS students to take the message of preserving the environment back home, and return with some media to recycle.

Charter Communications’ will be paying the cost of collecting, removing, and recycling these unwanted, nonbiodegradable items by working with GreenDisk, which will securely dispose of all the recorded information on tapes by bulk erasing, and then break down each tape to reuse the plastic in the manufacture of new products.

Residents in the Charter 14-town franchise area are encouraged to look through old tapes of any format to decide which ones are no longer needed and drop them off at the studios of CTV-21 (11 Commerce Road, Newtown) or the Charter Communications customer payment center at 9 Commerce Road, Newtown. For quantities over 50, please call 203-304-4050 for instruction.

According to Charter Communications, the campaign was designed to encourage people to get involved with their community by using their local channel. For more information on CommuniTyVision 21 and the “Recycle Your Tapes” campaign contact 203-304-4050 or visit www.communityvision21.com.