An Orangeburg company is working with American Forests and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative’s educational program, Project Learning Tree, to help teach kids here in Rockland and across the country the important role forests play in fighting climate change. Nice-Pak’s Global Director, CSR and Sustainability, Deb Fillis Ryba, says “Project Learning Tree” has a curriculum available this spring for local teachers, community leaders and residents, and Nice-Pak employees, to teach kids in Kindergarten through high school about the connection between trees and human health…
The three-year program will plant 150,000 trees throughout the U.S. It’s part of Nice-Pak’s commitment to the international campaign to grow one trillion trees worldwide by 2030. For more information about “Project Learning Tree” visit their website, www.PLT.org or www.1T.org.