http://green.yahoo.com/blog/greenpicks/284/couple-recycles-400-000-cans-to-pay-for-wedding.html
Monday, November 1, 2010
Couple pays for wedding by collecting cans
Incredible story: this couple collected more than 400K cans to pay for their wedding - and they care still collecting to pay for a honey moon and donate to charity.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Friday, September 25, 2009
It all started with one of those clunky hand cranked dealios and a bunch of beers
The Lake of the Ozarks is one of the best party lakes in the country. A lot... I meant A LOT... of beer is drank every weekend in the summer at the lake. For years, me and my friends did our fair share at my dad's place. Oh, and his friends weren't shy around a case of beer either.
Now at the lake, cans are much easier to use:
1. easy to get cold (Eddie says it takes 7 mins flat to get a can of beer just cold enough)
2. easy to transport... no breakage
3. easy to toss to some thirsty fool floating around in the lake (if missed the can will pop right back up)
4. easy to dispose of (they crush... unlike bottles)
Needless to say, at the end of a weekend my dad would have bags full of cans (sometimes up to 5-6 bags, but more like 3-4 on average)... mostly uncrushed and somewhat cumbersome to haul back to the city. At some point, he found a hand cranked beverage can crusher. He had a couple mounted at the lake house:
1. On the dock was an old single vertical can crusher
2. On the screened-in porch he had a nicer multi-feeder version that would drop the can out after crushing
> Operation:
a. load a 6 pack in the feeder
b. yank the handle to crush
c. let the can fall out
d. repeat b. until out of cans
These crushers served their purpose...we went from 3 or 4 bags of uncrushed cans to 1 or 2. But dad, being the guy he is, needed to add some power to the process of crushing cans...
This is our story... I hope it has a happy ending...
Want to know where we ended up? Go here: EZ Life LLC
Now at the lake, cans are much easier to use:
1. easy to get cold (Eddie says it takes 7 mins flat to get a can of beer just cold enough)
2. easy to transport... no breakage
3. easy to toss to some thirsty fool floating around in the lake (if missed the can will pop right back up)
4. easy to dispose of (they crush... unlike bottles)
Needless to say, at the end of a weekend my dad would have bags full of cans (sometimes up to 5-6 bags, but more like 3-4 on average)... mostly uncrushed and somewhat cumbersome to haul back to the city. At some point, he found a hand cranked beverage can crusher. He had a couple mounted at the lake house:
1. On the dock was an old single vertical can crusher > Operation:
a. load b. yank the handle to crush
c. pop the decimated can out with your finger tips
d. reload...repeat
2. On the screened-in porch he had a nicer multi-feeder version that would drop the can out after crushing
a. load a 6 pack in the feeder
b. yank the handle to crush
c. let the can fall out
d. repeat b. until out of cans
These crushers served their purpose...we went from 3 or 4 bags of uncrushed cans to 1 or 2. But dad, being the guy he is, needed to add some power to the process of crushing cans...
This is our story... I hope it has a happy ending...
Want to know where we ended up? Go here: EZ Life LLC
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