Operation Green: Improving Our Communities

The goal of Phi Theta Kappa's partnership with Keep America Beautiful is to focus attention on the environment by helping to improve our communities. Keep America Beautiful forms public/private partnerships and programs that engage individuals to take greater responsibility for improving their community environments.

Contact Info

Michelle Ressler
Project Chair
chellebelle17505@yahoo.com 
Operation Green Chair

Operation Green Service Opportunities

Help Support Ronald McDonald House by Collecting Magazines

Recycle your old magazines and catalogs and raise money for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Pennsylvania. Funds raised from the magazine recycling are used to support the operations of the Ronald McDonald House in Hershey.

The Ronald McDonald House in Hershey offers a temporary home to out-of-town families who have seriously ill children being treated at the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital. Up to 21 families each night stay, free of charge, because of the generosity of wonderful donors. Because of the demand for rooms, the "Room to Grow!" Expansion Project is currently underway. For more information visit http://www.ronaldshousehershey.org.

Magazines for the Ronald McDonald House in Hershey can be recycled at any green magazine container location listed below:

 

  • Ronald McDonald House, 745 W. Governor Rd., Hershey
  • K-Mart, Summerdale Plaza, Enola
  • Restaurant Center, Friendship Dr., Harrisburg
  • McDonald's Restaurant, 757 East Cumberland St., Lebanon
  • Penn Cinema, 541 Airport Rd., Lititz
  • Mechanicsburg Middle School, 1750 S. Market St., Mechancisburg
  • Klick-Lewis Family Dealerships, Cherry Street Between Duke & Prince, Palmyra
  • Darrenkamp's Market, 191 Ridgeview Rd. South, Elizabethtown
  • McDonald's Restaurant, 4605 Jonestown Rd., Harrisburg
  • VA Medical Centr, State Drive, Lebanon
  • McDonald's Restaurant, 16th & Cumberland Sts., Lebanon
  • VFW Post 5056, 149 S. Charlotte St., Manheim
  • Karn's Quality Foods, 101 S. Union St., Middletown

Recycle New and Used Textbooks to Benefit the College, Chapter, and Community

Harrisburg and Lancaster Phi Theta Kappans continue to encourage their fellow students to "Think Green" by recycling new and used textbooks through Better World Books. Qualifying textbooks benefit the college, chapter, and the community four-fold.

First, each participating campus receives $0.50 to $1.00 per qualifying textbook that they ship. These funds assist our members in organizing more opportunities for Fellowship, Leadership, Scholarship, and Service. Second, Better World Books will sell the "salable" textbooks via their online store, www.betterworld.com. A portion of the proceeds from these sales will go to benefit the nonprofit literacy group, WorldFund. Third, any "usable" books are donated to schools over seas through the nonprofit literacy organization, Books for Africa. Fourth, any books that do not meet the criteria of "salable" or "usable" are recycled. This keeps thousands of pounds of paper from being dumped into landfills across the country.

Campus Liaisons are always looking for extra hands to assist in scanning and boxing up textbooks to be processed for shipment. To provide assistance at the Harrisburg Campus please contact Rachel Smith or Michelle Gandy. To provide assistance at the Lancaster Campus please contact Michelle Ressler or Mary Nickle.

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