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Published May 01, 2008 11:46 pm - She calls herself the greatest bag lady in the world, but she’s really an environmental educator from Marietta. Bag lady spreads the green ASHTABULA — She calls herself the greatest bag lady in the world, but she’s really an environmental educator from Marietta.
Kathy Bartunek of GT Environmental gave several lively presentations Thursday to classes at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School. With the use of visual aids, she covered recycling, landfill operations, composting, waste reduction, household hazardous waste and other solid-waste topics. “She’s very energetic,” teacher Allison Park said. “She also just happens to be my future mother-in-law. The kids will like her.” Park was correct. Holding up a brown paper bag to a class of third and fourth-graders, Bartunek asked what they would do with it. Some of the answers she received were: use for a craft or reuse it at a store. “At my house, I would reuse it again and again,” Bartunek said. “When I go grocery shopping, I take my own bags.” Thus, the bag-lady designation, she said. When the brown bag becomes too worn to carry anything, Bartunek feeds it to the worms in her compost pile. “Worms love brown paper,” she said. Bartunek took along many other items to demonstrate how just about anything can be recycled, including an old shoe. “This old shoe will take 50 years to deteriorate at a landfill,” she said. “Recycle it. Give it to Goodwill.” Recycled tennis shoes can be made into material for playgrounds and running tracks. The same goes for tires. “Rubber tires are no longer just for growing mosquitoes,” Bartunek said. “Now, it’s for a running track or mulch for flower beds.” She pulled out a bunch of white grocery plastic bags and asked, “Do you know what they call these at the landfill?” Nobody knew. 
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