Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary Talks Trash

Did you know the average person in the U.S. generates four pounds of garbage each day or 1,460 pounds per year? Did you also know that every day about 70,000 kittens and puppies are born compared with about 10,000 humans born every day?

What do these statistics have in common? The numbers are WAY TOO HIGH! The good news though is that everyone can do something to decrease these numbers starting immediately!

Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary announces the start of an ongoing paper drive to encourage recycling in our community and raises money to aid homeless cats and dogs.

Everyone in our community can easily be a part of this recycling program spearheaded by Abitibi Recycling Corporation. Located at 143 W. Vaughn Avenue in down town Gilbert, the Abitibi Recycling bin outside of Friends for Life’s adoption center is available to collect clean and dry recycling products.

Acceptable recycling materials are:

Newspapers
Magazines
Shopping Catalogs
Office and School papers
Mail

On a regularly scheduled basis Abitibi-Consolicated Recycling will empty the Paper Retriever, and after collecting the minimum amount of paper per month, Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary will earn revenue from the contents of the Abitibi Paper Retriever.

Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary is a registered nonprofit, no-kill, volunteer based organization. Established in 1993, Friends for Life has placed more than 10,000 cats and dogs into loving homes. The organization promotes spay and neuter as the answer to animal overpopulation and offers a low-cost spay and neuter program to the public.

To contact Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary call 480-497-8296 or e-mail info@azfriends.org. Additional information can be found on their web site at www.azfriends.org.