Rerun Theatre
The Rerun Theatre shows some great old movies that the people in Recycle City love to see. The owner, Sam Spade, used to run first-time movies until he realized that most of the plots had been recycled from classics anyway.
Pets
The Recycle City pet shop is a little different from other pet shops. They help give animals a new, loving home when their former owners can no longer care for them. When litters of puppies or kittens arrive, they get to play in shredded newspaper in their pens -- giving newspaper another use before going into the waste stream.
Cafe
Moonbeam runs the Recycle City cafe and used bookstore. Her business
is very environmentally friendly and is a comfortable place for the locals
to sit and read used books while sipping something to drink.
Order a double decaf latte and see what Moonbeam does to help the environment.
Glasses and mugs
Moonbeam stocks the snack bar and coffee area with real glasses and mugs instead of foam cups. Mugs and glasses can be washed and used time after time.
To cut down on the amount of paper and plastic going into the waste stream, Moonbeam sells refillable mugs made from recycled plastic. Her regular customers buy them and bring them in whenever they want something to go.
Using reusable mugs saves natural resources. It also saves Moonbeam and her customers money because she doesn't have to buy or throw away disposable cups. (Moonbeam even offers a small discount to customers who bring their own mugs from home).
Used
books
There is a great supply of used books of all kinds in the bookstore that were sold or donated by their original owners. Customers can buy the books to take home, or just borrow them from the shelves to read while they hang out at the cafe.
Newspapers
Although Moonbeam sells newspapers to customers who get coffee to go, she encourages customers who stay to reuse the free papers she makes available. (Moonbeam keeps a stack of today's papers and some of the latest magazines in a box. Her customers can pick out what they want to read and return it when they leave the cafe.)
Coffee
grounds
Since a coffee house can use up a lot of coffee, Moonbeam called the Recycle City school to see if some students wanted to come by to pick up the coffee grounds for the school's compost bin. They did. Now, Moonbeam puts all the grounds into a single bin, so the students can collect them once a week. She also buys produce grown with the compost in the school's garden to make the best sandwiches and salads in town.
