Southern Champion Tray team members will present to 13 local elementary schools the TICCIT (pronounced “ticket”) program – Trees Into Cartons, Cartons Into Trees.
Southern Champion Tray is a leading producer of paperboard packaging products and a member of the Paperboard Packaging Council. Each year in April and May, PPC members participate in this program to honor Earth Day. The program highlights renewability and sustainability of paper and paperboard packaging. In the TICCIT program, member companies partner with local schools where they present fun learning material about the benefits of using paperboard packaging over alternative material. The companies also donate native saplings and teach students how to plant them in a paper-based carton. The students are then instructed to plant these "carton-and-tree units" in
the ground. The cartons provide protection and a natural water funnel for the new trees. As the trees grow, the cartons biodegrade, completing the "trees into cartons, cartons into trees" cycle.
Southern Champion Tray will visit or has visited 13 local elementary schools on the following dates:
Soddy Elementary, April 7; Signal Mountain Christian School, April 28; Brainerd Baptist School, April 13; Nolan Elementary, April 29; Thrasher Elementary, April 21; Harrison Elementary, May 4; Chattanooga Christian School, April 22; Red Bank Elementary, May 5; Normal Park Elementary, April 22; Jasper Elementary, May 6; Whitwell Elementary, April 25t; Fairyland School, May 25; and Lookout Mtn. Elementary, April 28.