Full Text of HR0353 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House wish to | 3 | | recognize the 2013 Dream Machine Recycle Rally; and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, Since its launch in 2010, the Dream Machine | 5 | | Recycle Rally has galvanized K-12 schools across the country, | 6 | | their faculty, and surrounding communities to help make the | 7 | | planet cleaner and greener through recycling; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, Nearly 1,000 schools in 34 states have | 9 | | participated in the program since its launch, and nearly 40 | 10 | | million beverage containers - almost 2 million pounds - have | 11 | | been captured and kept out of landfills; and
| 12 | | WHEREAS, In its 3rd-year (2012), the program awarded nearly | 13 | | $200,000 in prizes to participating schools across the country; | 14 | | one of the programs's sponsors, PepsiCo, has contributed over | 15 | | $500,000 in prizes over the 3 years of the program; 3 schools | 16 | | will be awarded the Dream Green Makeover Grand Prize this May | 17 | | and June, $25,000 to be used for green improvements at the | 18 | | schools, such as solar panels, energy-efficient printers, | 19 | | outdoor classrooms, and much more; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, Since the program's launch, it has had a great | 21 | | charitable partner in the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for |
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| 1 | | Veterans with Disabilities (EBV); the more plastic bottles and | 2 | | aluminum cans recycled through the program the more support | 3 | | PepsiCo provides to EBV, which provides training in | 4 | | entrepreneurship and small business management to post-9/11 | 5 | | veterans with disabilities; PepsiCo has given $1.5 million to | 6 | | EBV over the 3 years since the program's beginning; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, The first grand-prize celebration of this year's | 8 | | Dream Machine Recycle and Rally program will take place on May | 9 | | 22, 2013, at St. Bede Catholic School in Ingleside; the school | 10 | | showed a huge dedication to recycling this past year with more | 11 | | than 550,000 plastic bottles and aluminum cans collected; | 12 | | therefore, be it
| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 15 | | we recognize the Dream Machine Recycle and Rally program and | 16 | | St. Bede's commitment to recycling; and be it further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to the Dream Machine Recycle Rally organizers and to | 19 | | St. Bede's Catholic School.
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