All-Pro Atlanta Falcons fullback Ovie Mughelli gets environmentalism.
“If you just had a camp on environmental education,” he says, “nobody would show up.” So he came up with activities like Recycle on the Run: an unconventional obstacle course in which participants, while cradling a football and contending with walls and traffic cones, must navigate a trash-strewn path, picking up paper wrappers, plastic containers, aluminum cans, and bottles and disposing of them in the proper recycling bins. Slow finishers can make up time by answering eco-trivia questions or unscrambling environmental words. “I want them to understand,” Mughelli says, “that recycling has to become second nature to us all.”
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