Will Your Family Be the Biggest Loser?

Hundreds of STEM Academy and Brookfield Elementary families are reducing, reusing and recycling more than your average load of garbage for Waukesha Recycling Center's "Waste Stream Challenge."

Saving every soda can, plastic bottle and milk jug, more than 200 families are hoping to become Waukesha County's biggest loser — of garbage poundage, that is.  On Monday, STEM Academy and Brookfield Elementary School kicked off the Reduce Your Waste Stream Challenge, hosted by the Waukesha County Department of Parks and Land Use — Recycling Program. This "go green" competition challenges families to see who can reduce their trash and increase their recycling for a month. Each family will have a "weigh-in" every week using an everyday bathroom scale at home to record their results and, in some cases, blogging about how they are reducing the amount of garbage they throw away. "Our two boys were very helpful emptying all the baskets around …

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