Trash Bash a Smashing Success!

Thanks to everyone (and the weather) for another successful Trash
Bash. In spite of my early concerns, there was no shortage of
volunteers at 9 o'clock on Saturday. The cars and trucks and walk
ups (roll ups) just kept coming.

We topped off the second dumpster of general trash right at 1 pm, as
Cloudburst arrived to take it away. Gretchen took 2 loads of paint,
pesticide, batteries and fluorescent lamps to Metro; Darren took 2+
loads of e-waste to Free Geek and I (will take) more than 2 loads of
styrofoam to Total Reclaim on Monday.

Preliminary tally is 66 people taking advantage of the clean up, some
with several loads; John Maher the metal guy really scored this year
filling up both his trucks with appliances and all sort of scrap
metal. A surprising number (26) of CRT computer monitors came in
this year as well as lots of "tower" style CPU computers. We filled
4 roller carts for paper shredding, handled by AccuShred NW.

We collected just over $1,000 and have paid some of that to Free Geek
to handle the e-waste and will pay AccuShred NW for shredding the
paper, as well.

Thanks to Chris Lopez and the sign crew for the posting the signs
at so many the street corners in the 'hood. They certainly
contributed to the high turn out.

Thanks to event volunteer this year: Chuck Hudson, George Carlson,
Dan Lerch-Walters, Stephen Chase, Chris Lopez, Nicolai Nyschins,
Gretchen Dan Delany, Milhaupt and Satomi for their time and effort
making this year's trash bash another smooth-running success. And,
of course, thanks to Holladay Park Plaza for use of their parking lot.

- Dave Brook