October 24, 2011 (Marathon, WI) – The Marathon High School Ecology Club received a green gift from Cellcom in the amount of $1000 at a presentation at their facility today.
The Marathon High School Ecology Club was founded as a student-based organization to help raise student awareness of environmental concerns and promote conservation efforts and outdoor activities.
“The Marathon High School Ecology Club is very honored and thrilled to be receiving the green gift donation from Cellcom,” said Todd Stoffel, biology instructor at the school. “It has been a goal of the Marathon Ecology Club to build a shelter on the school forest property which can be used as an environmental and outdoor classroom for the whole Marathon School District and Community. This donation will be put towards the materials needed to get the shelter build so we can start getting students out into the environment."
A total of $30,950 was given out to 17 green organizations in Cellcom’s service area.
Since 2004 Cellcom has offered a cell phone recycling program where customers can bring in their old or unwanted phones to be reused and recycled. Cellcom sends the phones to recyclers who in return send money to Cellcom for the materials that were saved from the phones. Cellcom has always donated this money back to local non-profits.
This is the second year that Cellcom is donating their recycling funds to green non-profit initiatives in an effort to complete the green cycle that starts with consumers being environmentally-conscious and donating their devices.
“We are constantly taking steps to become more eco-friendly as a company,” said Brighid Riordan, director of public affairs. “By dedicating our recycling money to green initiatives, Cellcom continues our longstanding commitment to the community and together we can work toward a greener tomorrow.”
Other green gifts went to non-profits throughout Cellcom’s service area and included Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary (Green Bay), Preble Agriscience Natural Resources Program (Green Bay), Greater Green Bay YMCA Camp U-Nah-Li-Ya (Suring), Trees for Tomorrow (Eagle River), Friends of Mosquito Hill (New London), Heckrodt Wetland Reserve (Menasha), Northwoods Elementary School (Rhinelander), CAP Services (Stevens Point), Central Rivers Farmshed (Stevens Point), Woodland Dunes Nature Center (Two Rivers), Whitefish Dunes State Park (Sturgeon Bay), The Ridges Sanctuary (Bailey’s Harbor), Oconto River Watershed Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Camp Tekawitha (Shawano), Crivitz High School Science Club, DC Everest School Forest (Schofield), and Marathon High School Ecology Club.
Cellcom’s recycling program has generated over $105,000 for local charities over the past seven years.
Pictured from left: Cody Stankowski, Harrison Ko, Audrey Hilts, Dayton Hamann, Ashley Pierce, Todd Stoffel, John Schult and Principal Dave Beranek.