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Incidental Lives: Parents and school unite to reduce garbage

COURTESY MARY, STAR OF THE SEA SCHOOL

Vincent Veith, 9, sorts reusables, recyclables and trash into color-coded bins at Mary, Star of the Sea School. His mother, Carolina Veith, began researching what other schools were doing to reduce their amount of waste, and she, along, with Principal Margaret Rufo, started the Go Green parent-teacher group at the school.