In Florida, the Pasco County district school board, together with the county's utilities department, are partnering to put newspaper recycling containers at 35 schools, which will be available for the general public to use, The Suncoast News reported Tuesday.

Newspapers around the world are looking to be more environmentally friendly, and partnering with the communities they publish in for efforts such as recycling are increasingly popular.

The county previously only had seven drop-offs for paper recycling, and does not have a paper recycling programme that allows citizens to put paper recycling out with their garbage or other recycling, Jennifer Seney, the county's recycling coordinator, told The Suncoast News.

The district recycles about 1,500 tons of paper material each year, of which newspaper and cardboard accounts for a large portion.

Paper makes up about a third of the county's waste stream, and Seney said it is her job to divert as much paper waste as possible from the waste stream and into recycling, before it ends up in a landfill or incinerator. With just seven drop-off sites, 137 tons of paper were collected from October 2007 to February 2008, and Seney said that number should increase further with added drop-off spots at schools, The Suncaost News reported.