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Take Your Child to Work Day

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This past Thursday, April 22nd, was National Take Your Child to Work Day, where the children of Robard employees came in to our offices for a day of learning and making new friends, outside of the classroom setting. Entitled "Focus on Simple Choices," our program was designed to stress the importance of healthy food choices, exercising, using money wisely, recycling, and conserving energy - concepts that will stay with all of these children as they grow older.

One of the lessons that seemed to resonate with many of them was that when recycling plastic bottles, the cap needs to be separated from the bottle before it can be recycled. Currently, all recycling is manually sifted through to find bottles where the caps have been left on - such as water bottles, shampoo and conditioner containers, detergents, flip top caps on tubes, and more - and the caps are manually removed when found. If any of these caps are missed and the two kinds of plastic are recycled together, the entire batch needs to be thrown due to contamination, as the two plastics melt at different temperatures. We've found that Aveda - a manufacturer of professional plant-based hair and skin care products - has a program in place to collect these caps and recycle them into new caps and containers. As part of our Take Your Child to Work Day initiative, we've asked all the children to collect these plastic caps at home and send them in to Robard so that we can forward them along.

The goal of our program was to teach each child that small changes such as this can have a big impact on their future and the future of the Earth. Sure, our program was riddled with tours, crafts, and a wide selection of speakers (I know I saw a pirate!) but it was also a day where we here at Robard got to use our resources to help the future of tomorrow. Our diet programs are designed to help dieters make changes in their daily lives to become healthier and happier - so of course the message of our Take Your Child to Work day events was the same!

For more information on Aveda's cap recycling program - please visit Aveda's website.