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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 />
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