BEND, OR -- Bend-La Pine Schools officials say the district is working to keep textbooks out of the landfill. They ended up with an overabundance after the district adopted a new reading curriculum.

A Vancouver, WA recycling company has a facility capable of processing the books, and Republic Services offered to transport the material from Bend to The Paper People. Students, custodians and other staff packed it all up at the end of last school year and the district reports it’s all been delivered to Vancouver.

They estimate the effort diverted 66 cubic yards of books from the Knott Landfill.

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