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LakeForestLeader.com NEWS<br />

the lake forest leader | April 25, 2019 | 9<br />

Green Minds creates free recycling app<br />

for residents just in time for Earth Day<br />

Submitted by Green Minds<br />

Lake Forest Lake Bluff<br />

Members of Green Minds <strong>LF</strong>LB who created a new app, Recycle <strong>LF</strong>LB, stand at a<br />

launch party at Be Market in Lake Bluff April 13, (left to right) Azza Andreesen, Christian<br />

Kento Rasmussen, Marcus Norman and Yuh Schabacker-Koppel. Photo Submitted.<br />

Green Minds <strong>LF</strong>LB,<br />

which is a group of environmental<br />

advocates from<br />

Lake Forest and Lake<br />

Bluff, united to develop<br />

a mobile phone application<br />

that will help residents<br />

use local recycling<br />

resources.<br />

Green Minds <strong>LF</strong>LB has<br />

created a free downloadable<br />

app — Recycle <strong>LF</strong>LB<br />

— to help residents find solutions<br />

for how to recycle.<br />

Controlling waste management<br />

costs and limiting<br />

volume of materials sent<br />

to landfills is important for<br />

all municipalities.<br />

Green Minds learned<br />

that locals are often confused<br />

about what goes<br />

where, and there was a<br />

need for better information<br />

on reusing, recycling and<br />

composting.<br />

This innovative and<br />

user-friendly app will<br />

help local residents see<br />

when their next curbside<br />

recycling, ordinary waste<br />

stream and yard waste<br />

pick-ups are. It also allows<br />

the users to search over<br />

500 items to find the most<br />

sustainable solution for<br />

discarding them. Lastly,<br />

residents can be linked to<br />

local resources and their<br />

municipalities to order<br />

new recycling bins and get<br />

more information all from<br />

their mobile devices.<br />

Four core Green Minds<br />

volunteers worked long<br />

evenings the last seven<br />

weeks to bring this app to<br />

life:<br />

• Data Analyst: Azza<br />

Andreesen, analyzed and<br />

organized the data.<br />

• Graphic Designer:<br />

Marcus Norman from Norman<br />

Design Co. created<br />

the logos, interface and design<br />

of the app.<br />

• Programmer: Christian<br />

Rasmussen, a junior at<br />

Lake Forest High School,<br />

was responsible for programming<br />

the app and<br />

came up with a user-intuitive<br />

platform. (Editorial<br />

note: Christian’s participation<br />

in this project would<br />

make a fantastic special<br />

interest feature.)<br />

• Project Manager: Yuh<br />

Schabacker-Koppel coordinated<br />

the effort and was<br />

responsible for research<br />

and gathering data for the<br />

search part of the app.<br />

The app was made possible<br />

with the collaboration<br />

of the City of Lake<br />

Forest and the Village of<br />

Lake Bluff and the help of<br />

many Green Minds volunteers.<br />

“Green Minds hopes this<br />

app will be used by many<br />

residents,” said Yuh Schabacker-Koppel,<br />

a Green<br />

Minds board member. “By<br />

donating this app, Green<br />

Minds hopes to reduce our<br />

communities’ waste management<br />

expenses while<br />

also helping our communities<br />

become more sustainable.”<br />

The team had a lot of fun<br />

working on the app.<br />

“It was a fantastic and<br />

evolving experience to<br />

work together as a team<br />

in the real world by creating<br />

the Green Minds app,”<br />

said Rasmussen. “It’s my<br />

hope that all Lake Forest<br />

and Lake Bluff residents<br />

will download the Recycle<br />

<strong>LF</strong>LB app to their phones,<br />

to help make a better future<br />

for all of us.”<br />

Max<br />

The Colquhoun family,<br />

Lake Bluff<br />

Born: Aug. 20, 2012<br />

Dog Friend: Bruno<br />

Favorite Hobby: I<br />

love sleeping on the<br />

bed all day and then<br />

playing with my toy<br />

duck, which I have<br />

taken all the stuffing out of!<br />

Pet Peeves: When someone tries to take the<br />

blankets away from me or wakes me up from my<br />

nap.<br />

Favorite Snack: I LOVE carrots, especially carrot<br />

peels, they are my favorite!<br />

HELP! The Lake Forest Leader is in search of more pets.<br />

To see your pet featured as Pet of the Week, send a photo<br />

and information to alyssa@lakeforestleader.com or 60<br />

Revere Drive, Suite 888, Northbrook, IL 60062.

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