Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch

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Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch

• Recycling Clothes and Households Goods
• September 13, 2007

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Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch1952 200755 years
of serviceMisson We help at-risk children
and their families succeed in the name of Christ.
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• Who are recycling for
• besides Planet Earth
• Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch, a 55-year-old
  Christian, non-profit agency, helps at-risk
  children and their families succeed in the name
  of Christ. It serves 124 children everyday in
  five psychiatric residential treatment programs
  in Bismarck, Fargo and Minot, North Dakota and
  in its Fargo Safe Home.
• The Ranch also serves children in its Day
  Treatment programs. Professional staff help
  residents with issues such as substance abuse
  and dependence abuse and neglect emotional
  disturbances ADHD autism spectrum, oppositional
  defiant, and learning disorders and sexual
  responsibility issues.
• The Ranch is accredited by the Commission on
  Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.

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Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch

• Main source of recycling are our seven
• Thrift Stores located in
• Bismarck
• Minot
• Grand Forks
• Devils Lake
• Fargo (2)
• Moorhead

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Tribecca Corp., Miami, Florida

• Tribecca purchases DBGRs recyclable items and
  sells them to a third party for distribution.

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Reducing expense through recycling

• Dakota Boys and Girls ranch garbage expense was
  reduced from 106,000 in FY 2005-06 to 75,000 in
  FY 2006-07.
• The reduction was due primarily to the co-op with
  recyclers.
• In July 2007, Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch
  recycled 197,314 TONS of clothing and
  miscellaneous! Thats in one month.
• All recycling resulted in an additional 67,977
  in funding to our programs.

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How does Dakota Boys and Girls Ranch measure up
to going green?

• We use used furniture and other office items
  (which do not sell in our stores) in our own
  offices and our residential programs.
• Some other ways we try to help the environment
• -- use recycled paper in our Ranch publications
• -- set up display booths about recycling for
  Earth Day.
• -- have staff and residents who participate in
  the Highway clean-up program
• -- we car-pool to attend meetings on our
  Bismarck, Fargo and Minot campuses

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The DBGR Thrift Stores recycle many items with
Tribecca, such as gently-used clothing, shoes,
linens, and toys,but
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What we cant recycle fills up the landfill

• Batteries
• Food items
• Woven baskets
• Tupperware storage
• Large appliances
• Snow sleighs
• Furniture
• Chemicals
• Paperback books
• Winter boots
• Winter skiwear
• And any item, which is damaged or defected

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Can you helpan at-risk child by assisting the
Ranch with its recycling efforts?Call
1-701-277-9424or visit us on the web
atwww.dakotaboysandgirlsranch.org