Trash Bash a HUGE Success - the proof is in the dumpsters!

Thanks to everyone for a wonderful clean up this morning (and to the weather gods for smiling on us). People were lined up right at 9 am to drop stuff off on their way out of town. Participation far exceeded my expectations for a holiday weekend and we had a record turn out - 3 dumpsters full of trash!

In addition, record amounts of paint, pesticides, batteries and fluorescent lamps - so much so that we discovered we were breaking the rules about what constitutes a hazardous waste collection and had our wrists slapped by Metro.  We will have to figure something better for next year.

Something else that surprised me was the lack of interest in paper shredding.  Perhaps it was because people didn't see the locked collection carts along the back fence?  Or perhaps, it was becase the NE Broadway Business Association had just sponsored their own public event a month before (although, if so, it certainly didn't reduce the quantity of styrofoam we collected!)  

So, special thanks to our many volunteers this morning:

• Recycle-drivers for hazardous waste James and Chuck,
• Styrofoam - Meg and the Dog Bus,
• Electronics waste - Darren
• Reusers, Howard and K.C. Davenport for high grading stuff to keep it out of the landfill
• Metals Magnate ("magnet"?) and former resident John Maher and his "boys" for recycling every bit of metal that came with 10 feet of them and pitching in wherever they could be useful.
• Greeting and donation collection - Kari, Jackleen and Carol
• Holladay Park Plaza for the use of their parking lot

And thanks to everyone who helped sort and unload the incredible variety of stuff that drove up all morning long.

Special mention to Dan Lerch-Walters and Stephen Chase for hauling 30 tires out of the Gulch as part of their own personal Gulch beautification project.

Dave Brook
Coordinator