Now We're Ready....

10/12/12

... to take a trip to the recycling center!!!

Here's our stash right now in our driveway {near the garage and end of the driveway}. Trav thinks this makes our house look like we are hillbillies....I'm not sure that's true! LOL! 

We are getting more and more cans, which is GOOD and BAD. Good because we can collect more money for our church's building campaign. Bad because we are running out of room in the truck bed to carry all of the bags/cans in one trip. **NOTE:: We live about 10 miles from the recycling center. So we try to take everything at once.

Trav has been thinking we should make side boards for our truck bed. If we had boards on the side that were as high as the cab, this would add way more room for bags and cans, and more metal findings!! Here's a picture of him talking about this idea--LOVE it! Now we just need to figure out how to make them and a way to do it too:)

Until then, we have decided to continue strapping the bags in place. But this trip we had one too many bags for the truck bed. So I suggested we tie the bag to the straps using heavy duty string (or the heaviest string we had on hand!).

Looks like it will work:) 

But what about the other bags.... well, inside the truck they go! Plus, we had a bin full of random metals to take along {you can see them behind Trav in the photo}. ***NOTE:: this probably wasn't a good idea--it never is! The smell associated with the cans.....just doesn't leave the truck when the bags are gone! 

We weighed the random metals first. Doesn't look like much, but check out what we took in! 

We had a total of 

• 9 lbs of extruded metals
• 6 lbs of yellow brass
• 2 lbs of cast aluminum
• 1 lb of #2 copper. 

Total pounds recycled today: 20

Total pounds of "random metals" recycled for C4C as of 10/12: 60 pounds!!!!

Now it was time to weigh the cans.

Total pounds recycled today: 187--- HOOOOORAY! That's A LOT!!! 

Total pounds recycled for C4C as of 10/12: 1,772 pounds!!!!!

That's amazing and makes us so excited!! Keep turning in your cans! Keep sending in your random metals too!!!