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About a month ago, we published a brief item about a fundraising drive to benefit Lakewood Elementary School and the environment.

Kim Schaefer, mom of a second-grader at the school, serves as the program coordinator, and she reports that the drive — recycling cell phones and printer ink cartridges — now reaches phase II.

The program’s done reasonably well enough but could be better, she said in an e-mail message, the body of which follows:

During the first phase of the fundraiser, we collected 114 cell phones and over 200 ink jet cartridges. Collection efforts during the first phase included me and my second-grade daughter, Rowan, going house to house, me and my husband, Bryan, hitting up friends and co-workers, and the installment of donation boxes at Lakewood Elementary and Whole Foods Market in Lakewood.

Rowan and Bryan built and decorated the boxes. I have collected about a quarter of the phones from my workplace, but the majority of the phones were donated at the Lakewood Elementary box. I think the Whole Foods box is under-utilized and hope to partner with them for a bigger recycling event in the upcoming months.

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