4-H clubs collect bottle caps for bench project
From April 2022 to February 2023, This-N-That and Millfork Valley 4-H clubs gathered plastic bottle caps from friends and family. Pictured is the Millfork Valley club. (Submitted)
This-N-That and Millfork Valley 4-H clubs participated in the Coshocton County Bottle Caps to Benches project. Pictured are This-N-That members with a collection of bottle caps. (Submitted)
This-N-That and Millfork Valley 4-H clubs participated in the Coshocton County Bottle Caps to Benches project. Their efforts mean two more benches will be placed at Skip’s Landing soon by the Coshocton Maintenance Department.
From April 2022 to February 2023, the clubs gathered plastic bottle caps from friends and family. For each bench, 200 pounds of caps are needed. This-N-That collected more than that, so they gave their extra pounds to Millfork Valley. June Hunter said, “When I found out Elaine Ashcraft, advisor of Millfork Valley was also collecting caps, we decided to go together to pick the benches up in Wadsworth, Ohio.”
The benches were picked up in February.
This-N-That 4-H Club collected enough caps for one bench. Their bench was sponsored by the Three Rivers Firefighters Association. The bench from Millfork Valley was sponsored by Fortune Boot Shop, Kehl Body Shop and Berlin Antique Mall. The clubs want to express their appreciation to all the sponsors for paying the cost of the benches.
Michaela Greten said their clubs have always done a lot of recycling projects. “We think that Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are important for 4-H’ers to learn and understand.” Advisors in both clubs encourage young people to recycle. They are going to continue to save caps for other projects for the community.
The club advisors feel the project taught their members patience, as bottle caps don’t weigh much and they needed so many. Members of both clubs were very excited to get started and got friends, family, and other community members to help them save bottle caps.
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