LOWNDES COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) – Good habits are more easily learned at an earlier age.

A partnership between Lowndes County’s newest industry and Lowndes County schools is helping elementary students learn a habit that can help clean up their neighborhood and improve the overall environment.

Representatives with Aluminum Dynamics have been working with third graders across the district to teach them the importance of recycling.

Lowndes County schools have joined schools from 14 states in the Million Can Recycle Contest.

The contest has encouraged kids to collect and recycle their aluminum cans and explained to them the environmental impact that this simple act can have.

There are also economic incentives. Recycled aluminum provides material to produce new aluminum products, and for the

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