Monday, February 23, 2009

Free T.V./Computer Recycling - Sat. Apr. 25th

Come join me and 1,400 of your neighbors at our T.V. and computer recycling drop-off event Saturday, April 25th, 2009 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00p.m. at the Brooklyn Park Operations & Maintenance facility, 8300 Noble Ave N. Did I mention it is free for residents of Brooklyn Park, Brooklyn Center, Crystal and New Hope? Try and find anything free nowadays! We recycle many other things for free such as cell phones, radios, monitors, oil, oil filters, antifreeze, bicycles, scrap metal, and vehicle/household batteries.

We also recycle appliances for less than anywhere in town. Appliances are $10/unit and air conditioners are$15/unit. Car tires cost $1/tire and pickup truck tires are $2/unit and up depending on if you're bringing in tires from the farm tractor for recycling. A more comprehensive list of acceptable items is on our website. See you in April!

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Top ten reasons your recycling wasn't picked up?

10. The recycling cart was not set out before the truck went by (should be out by 6:30 a.m.)

9. The recycling cart grew arms and rolled itself to Florida for the winter.

8. The cart had unacceptable items in it such as clothes, leaves, wood, t.v.'s, or an album of
Bing Crosby's greatest hits (the cover would have been okay).

7. The cart had aspirations to be a magician and perfected the disappearing act (please contact us for another cart).

6. It was out on the wrong day, recycling is only collected once every other week.

5. It was your significant other's turn to take out the recycling (they may have told you they did it, but they really forgot)

4. One of six holidays (New Years Day, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas) fell somewhere between Monday and Friday and pushed back your collection by one day

3. Oops!

2. The cart was pulled in before the truck made it through the route (the truck broke down and by the time it was fixed they barely finished the route by 6:30 p.m. to avoid getting fined by the city.

1. Gremlins, they still exist, and they attacked the driver and stole the truck right before they got to your street.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Superbowl Boosts Recycling

100 million people (give or take a few) and I watched the Superbowl last night. If they were like me they helped boost recycling with the number of cans and bottles collected for recycling this week. Let's do the math together. To simplify my experiment, say everyone consumes an extra 2 cans of their preferred beverage, which is a conservative estimate for many people that watch the game. Yes, some live it up a bit more with bottled beverages and wine, but let's talk aluminum cans.

100,000,000 people * 2 extra cans/person = 200,000,000 cans. "WikiAnswers" says about 28 empty cans equals a pound. 200,000,000 cans divided by 28 cans/lb. gives us 7.14 million pounds of extra recyclable cans from the Superbowl. Converted to money, at $0.60/lb. that's over $4.28 million dollars in aluminum! Wow, the Superbowl really does boost recycling!