A cooperative team effort between Lodi Unified School District staff and California Waste Recovery Systems has helped make the recycling program a success. At the schools, student volunteers, recycling clubs, student government officers, and custodial staff all join forces to collect recyclable materials from the classrooms. The collected material is them placed in an onsite recycling dumpster.

• In 2010, 63.5 percent of the paper used in the U.S. was recovered for recycling. This represents an 89 percent increase in the recovery rate since 1990.
• Every ton of paper recycled saves more than 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space.
• 87 percent (268 million) of Americans have access to curbside or drop-off paper recycling programs.
• In 2010 the amount of paper recovered for recycling averaged 334 pounds for each man, woman and child in the United States.