Totes Mcgoat Research Paper

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Totes McGoats: A half human half goat with a grey long sleeve undershirt and a blue shirt with the name Totes McGoat and the recycling symbol in the middle of the chest. Walks around in two legs and encourages the community of Niagara Falls to recycle their waste properly. McGoat was initially to become a fun mascot and inspire people to recycle more. However, why is this creator so horrid to look at, yet alone be advertised?
Buffalo is known for Buffalo Bills and their mascot is a bison, so why have more of a buffalo logo to create confusion. Totes McGoat was an idea brought from Brooke D’Angelo as a new way to inform the public about recycling.
“My friends and I were talking about having a mascot, something Niagara Falls related and we started to think of the animals that are related to the falls. And of course Goat, Goat Island so my friend texted me, ‘OMG, Totes McGoat!’ Because the carts that you trash in the recycling cart people call them Totes. So it just fit so well it was kind of weird, of course I didn’t really have a budget, we
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He is no longer Totes McGoats because of publication of his personal life have been presented to the public. We have a replacement who volunteered to be the mascot but the whole idea of Totes McGoats was not about that individual who represents Totes McGoats it is about recycling and this program will still go on despite this small issue,” hesitantly Donna Lisa Donwhite, City Administrator for Niagara Falls says. “The Mayors vision wanted to recycle more, it’s not mandatory for the people to recycle now but that was the goal. Totes have been around over 30 years in other places just at a different perspective.” Donwhite was a bit nervous when I asked about the selling of heroin and didn’t want to make much eye contact with me and started playing with objects around her desk. Her office was in the higher temperature and the tension was

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