A big thanks to everyone at CPW and all of the volunteers who helped out with the May 5th DropOff-SwapOff. The event was very busy in the morning especially, but ran smoothly thanks to everyone’s efforts. There were 945 vehicles at the DropOff portion of the event alone. Below is a summary of the items collected at the DropOff. Thanks very much again for all of your help in making this a successful event!
- 219 bags of Styrofoam
- 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 bulky plastic
- 75% of a 30 yd roll-off container of carpet
- Ten 30 yd roll-off containers of oversize waste and construction & demo materials
- Two and a half truckloads of household goods
- One truckload and one vanload of reusable building materials
- Eleven containers of rags
- 208 boxes of paper were collected for off-site shredding
- 16 bags of sneakers
- One 24’ trailer plus a 48’ trailer was filled with electronics
- 10 refrigerators
- 35 dehumidifiers
- 41 air conditioners
- 25 microwaves
- 64 propane tanks
- 1 box of laser toner cartridges
- 1 box of inkjet cartridges
- 30 cell phones
- 31 mattresses
- Two 5 gallon buckets of rechargeable batteries
- Nine boxes of compact and 2’ fluorescent bulbs
- Three containers of 4’ fluorescent bulbs
- One box of 8’ fluorescent bulbs
- 3/4 bucket of thermostats / mercury products
- Four 30 gallon boxes of unwanted medicine
- Three 30 gallon boxes of SHARPS
- 56 bikes
- 1 truckload of books, DVDs & CDs (4,300 lbs)
- 10 toilets
- 4 sinks
- 19 fire extinguishers