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I dropped off a grocery bag full of junk mail, old ads and other papers I didn’t need anymore at a diocesan parish this morning. I generally drop off a bag or two after Sunday Mass, but the stack of papers at home was getting pretty high.

Send your curbside recycling to a nearby church instead. See accecptable materials.

Parishes get good returns on their recycling efforts. It helps the environment and becomes a paycheck per ton for the parish.

Here’s what Our Lady of the Valley Parish in Phoenix (Greenway and 35th Ave) reported in a recent bulletin regarding its recycling efforts:

Our Lady of the Valley succeeded in producing three tons of recyclable paper and cardboard for the month of June meriting $15 per ton for the parish (up from the base rate of $5 per ton).

If the parish produces three tons of recyclables for July and August, our base rate will become $15 per ton. If we maintain three three tons per month for September, October and November, the parish will then merit $20 per ton as a base rate.

St. Raphael (its sister parish in Glendale) has already achieved the highest rate per ton based on years of faithful recycling. In both parishes, let’s be sure to recycle our paper and cardboard (break down those boxes please) and generate much needed additional revenue to support our parishes.

Parishioners at St. Raphael put the money in the church’s general fund, according to a related 2007 Catholic Sun article. At the time, the parish had three bins on site that the lay faithful filled every three weeks.