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Published on Wednesday, October 08, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
The guy opened his front door, looked at the three high school girls standing there holding empty plastic bags and began to laugh.
"With the economy the way it is, you want to take my garbage, too?" he said.
Yeah, the girls did. Anything that could be recycled.
"He thought what we were doing was kind of funny, but by the end of the week we had 26 families in his neigh- borhood giving us their recyclables, by the end of the second week more than 50," Lizzie Klein said.
Our stumbling, bumbling government officials could pick up a few financial tips on thrift and going green from this 17-year-old director of Green-4-Kids, a nonprofit of 22 girls who have been classmates and friends since second grade.
They've grown up together, played in the park together, had overnights at each other's homes together, studied for tests together, and now, as seniors at Valley Torah High School in Valley Village, they're helping kids with cancer together
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