pic: Gearheads Recycling Project

[Mr. Pockets]

Originally Posted by Millory

People threw out tons of wacky things... I think that the blanket will be treated like all the clothes we got as well; They're going to be laundered and can be claimed by those who helped with the effort. Everything left unclaimed (which will likely be a lot, not a lot of it appealed to us when we looked) will be donated to St. Vincent de Paul or Goodwill or something of the like.

I found a cool par of black suede-like boots. I so call dibs

I think that quite a few people only heard the donate part (not the school supply bit). Today at one of the middle schools we found a full bottle of Fiji water, a pointer stick (the one with the little pointing hand on the end), and a Santa cookie plate!? Clay pots are also frequent (from art classes).

Originally Posted by Karibou

And for the record...after today's locker clean out at one of the middle schools, the binders in the picture take up a fraction of what's now sitting in my garage. It's amazing.

The middle school kids are either far more generous or far more wasteful than the highschoolers. We've covered two high schools and two middle schools and the middle schools have donated at least 2/3 of the stuff we've collected (might even be higher than that).

Originally Posted by Karibou

I was digging through a trash can today, going after a pair of nice shoes that i had seen go in there, and a kid walked up to me and said "Wow, that's really gotta suck." I told him that this is what makes me love my life, and it really IS fun, but he still looked at me like I was crazy.

Well we've found a contributor to our collection ^_-
[Warning philosophical rant] But, really it's just a question of whether or not people are willing to consider new ideas. A lot of people think that helping others by doing something unorthadox is stupid or pointless and thus don't understand the immense satisfaction that comes with it. Many people simply accept social norms (like the principle that you throw things out when you don't need them anymore) as static and never conjure the willpower to even consider that there might be another way to do things (like recycling or donating stuff), much less try to apply their idea (like by salvaging stuff from trash cans). [Philosophical rant finished]