E.L. Harvey wins big with lottery ticket recycling.A program for recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. non-winning lottery tickets is paying off big for Westboro, Mass.-based recycler E.L. Harvey & Sons and the Massachusetts State Lottery A game of chance operated by a state government. Generally a lottery offers a person the chance to win a prize in exchange for something of lesser value. Most lotteries offer a large cash prize, and the chance to win the cash prize is typically available for one dollar. . "Instant Re-Play," the lottery's anti-litter program that rewards individuals that collect and recycle re·cy·cle tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles 1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment. 2. To start a different cycle in. 3. a. non-winning instant or scratch tickets scratch ticket n. A lottery ticket played by scratching or scraping designated areas to reveal information used in determining the card's prize value. Also called scratch card. , has yielded 50 tons of tickets. The recycled tickets are converted into paper goods, such as tissue, toilet paper and napkins, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Ellen Harvey, executive vice president of E.L. Harvey & Sons, which is helping to collect and recycle the tickets. "The program is just getting started," she says. "The number of tickets we've collected has grown each time we've organized a collection, and we expect it to continue growing as word continues to spread." An Earth Day collection on the Esplanade in Boston yielded eight tons of instant tickets in just five hours, while a June 28 collection at lottery headquarters in Braintree, Mass., resulted in the collection of 16 tons in five hours, according to a release from E.L. Harvey & Sons. |
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