A big THANK YOU to all the volunteers, CPW staff and others who helped out at another successful DropOff & SwapOff Day on Saturday. It turned out to be a beautiful autumn day, with just a brief shower near the end of the event. Attendance at the DropOff was down a bit from previous highs, with 890 paying vehicles coming through checkout, but that's still quite a healthy total (roughly one vehicle every 23 seconds, on average)! As usual, we have no way to count how many people came through the SwapOff area, but those who were there know it was busy.
Once again we had more than 140 volunteers helping out during the course of the day. A special thank you to the many volunteers who stayed on for an extra shift or switched to a different area as we juggled people to cover everything. Everyone did a wonderful job.
Here is a summary of the items collected at the DropOff:
166 bags of Styrofoam
Three bags of towels for HGRM
Two truck loads of household goods
3/4 Truckload of reusable building materials
143 bikes
5 containers of rags
12 toilets
112 boxes of paper were collected for off-site shredding
29 mattresses
15 Boxes of sneakers for NIKE
five bags of sneakers for Goodwill
One bag of bubble wrap
One truckload of childrens items
75% of a 53 truck was filled with electronics
12 refrigerators
56 dehumidifiers
59 air conditioners
23 microwaves
21 propane tanks
9 helium tanks
1 box of tennis balls
One box of ink jet printer cartridges
43 toner cartridges
68 cell phones
Three 5 gal buckets of rechargeable batteries
Five boxes of compact fluorescent bulbs
Three containers of 4 fluorescent bulbs
One container of 8 fluorescent bulbs
1/2 of a 5 gal bucket of mercury thermostats & thermometers
10 Backpacks
Two boxes of VHS tapes
Three boxes of CDs
Two boxes of floppy discs
Seven smoke detectors
Five boxes of unwanted medicine
15 gallons of controlled substances
Three boxes of SHARPS
Five 30 yd roll-off containers of scrap metal
One 30 yd roll-off container of upholstered furniture
One 30 yd roll-off container of carpeting
We also collected five 30-yd rolloff containers of wood and construction debris that will be recycled into low level reuse and (unfortunately) five 30-yd rolloff containers of oversize waste that will be landfilled.
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