CAN DRIVE PROCESSING

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debrob2
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CAN DRIVE PROCESSING

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Just wanted to take a moment and THANK our wonderful community for supporting the Returnable CAN Drive. In case some of you out-of-staters don't know this, Michigan puts a 10 cent deposit on pop and beer cans, bottles and plastics. The middle school students at BICS collect those cans from generous donors and use the money to fund their trips to Camp Hayo-Went-Ha and Washington DC.

Every so often (more often in the summer months) we gather at Johnny B's shop to process those cans, bottles and plastics as they have to be separated by material, but also by the distributor that produces that product. It is QUITE AN OPERATION~ I invite any of you that might want to see how it is done to come out to the shop tomorrow at 6:00pm to see the kids in action! They are AMAZING! It is hard work, but a great way for them to learn the valuable life lesson that hard work and sweat pays off! They get to fund some amazing trips!

Can/Bottle/Glass collections may be taken to the Transfer Station!
Thank you so much!
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