We had 245 vehicles go through the process, some with just one category of participation. Some participated in all three services. If you do the math, that works out to about one vehicle every 44 seconds.
The Chatham County Sheriff's people collected 24.7 pounds of medications. That's a LOT of pills that won't get flushed down the drain, or end up in the land fill.
Also, the Shimar Recycling paper shredding truck processed 4,811 pounds of paper. That's, obviously, more that two tons of no longer needed paper that won't be sitting around in our homes, and will - instead - be processed, by a Georgia Pacific corp. facility in Georgia, and converted into toilet paper. A wonderful, concrete example of one of our Green Scene beliefs: recycle, repurpose, and reuse.
Once again, THANK YOU to everyone who volunteered to work at the event ( Maarten Simon-Thomas, Wendy Snodgrass, Bill Rosenfeld, Marilyn Racine, Randy James, Tom Jackson, Mike Petruska, Bill Terwilliger, Cheri DeRosia, Maggie Tunstall, Jim Kasprazak ), and those many residents who participated by bringing their recycling items to the event.
Jason Welsch, Moderator
Fearrington Green Scene