Recycle Camp wants YOUR Cans!!

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:27 pm

For anyone who doesn't know, and all those who would love to do their part, or just watch and laugh.

freakersedge · Post by **freakersedge** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 11:56 pm

Duck,

Can I bring empty cans from home for you to crush? You could carry them along side for the canless to be able to join in the fun of feeding the beast.

From the absurd to the sublime in the blink of an eye,
freaker.

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:56 pm

Hey, if you wanna bring a truckfull, or just one, you're more than welcome. All the cans go to the kids at Gerlach High, and I'd love to raise $1000 this year for them.

freakersedge · Post by **freakersedge** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 2:57 am

Duck,

Ok, I love keystone red, will I be laughed at if I donate all of them to the good cause? By the by, have you thought of a shredder for the plastic bottles?

freaker

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:37 pm

Back in default world I'm a big fan of IPA's, but on the Playa, it'd better be PBR. You won't get laughed at no matter what kind of beverage was in the can, as long as it's aluminum.
As far as handling anything else, Nevada has no recycling laws which makes everything else have no commercial value. Also, trucking bottles is both cost prohibitive, and if done to collect deposit money, illegal.
The value of the cans we collect is 1/5 of their value in Oregon or California, but again it is both illegal and cost prohibitive.

freakersedge · Post by **freakersedge** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:34 pm

This is kinda funny duck, do you know that about two miles further east on Interstate 80, beyond the Nixon, Gerlach turn-off is a plastic bottle recycle factory? Annnd as long as the bottles are empty with no caps or paper on them, they will take them, I no longer know if they will purchase them from you at bulk weight. Annnd if the cans are purchased in a state where there is a recycle fee, it is not illegal to return them to that state.

I also wonder if you know the irony behind the porta-potties we fill every year. If its a Reno based company the sewage goes to our plant here in town and the de-natured sludge is shipped to small farms in the Gerlach area for growing vegetables for mass consumption. These opinions are my own, and may be too old to be still true.

freaker

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 7:28 pm

I knew about the porta-potty thing, JOTS has grown specifically because of BM.
I didn't know about the bottle thing, can you get me their name?
I can include this in info we give out at Recycle. It's still logistically beyond our means to collect and ship bottles, but I would love info to help divert from the waste stream.
As for the cans, IF you can prove that they came from a deposit state, you're O.K., but that requires either small quantities, or receipts. It is actually illegal to transport large quantities of cans across state lines for the purpose of collecting deposits when no deposit was paid(fraud), in other words the burden of proof falls on the transporter, and law enforcement has no burden to believe anything less than the most strictly controlled evidence.
I'm happy just collecting the cans and letting the kiddies at Gerlach High take 'em in. Our bigger purpose is education, but the second half of the week, I usually feel like I'm just a garbageman. It's a shitty job, but how else would I be able to harass so many people in so little time?

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:01 pm

Cshhttt(opens a cold one)
gulgulgul
aahhhh

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 12:02 am

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freakersedge · Post by **freakersedge** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:14 pm

Ok, its the Sunday after another church holiday and I see there have only been 13 votes; is it possible that only 13 people read new topics? (Why do most of the church holidays promote drinking?) I used to go to beliefnet and made myself seek new topics to discuss, but the problem arose that most avid church goers wanted only to read what they believed be echoed by others. Like they didn't want to believe in a God of love who gave out new information. Is this human nature?

off topic freaker

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:18 pm

Well, y'know. Everybody's gotta believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink.

Actually, religion is supposed to be the opiate of the masses, but it obviously doesn't work without help.

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!!

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 1:41 pm

Maybe it's Television that's supposed to be the opiate of the masses?
Televangelists are really Drug Dealers!!

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:14 pm

FEED me Seymour, I'm HUNGRY!

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More Bang, more Rattle, less splash.

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 3:28 pm

YYYAAAARRRRRRRRRRR
NEED MORE BEER YYYAAARRRRRRRRRRR

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:59 am

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Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:56 pm

Okay, so our new project is the Recyclo-Trucks!

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 7:58 pm

nudge nudge wink wink

Your wife....

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:35 am

So, I should also state that our location is on Center Circle at 6:00, directly across from Playa Info and directly behind the Cafe' from the Keyhole.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:32 am

Why just cans? Why not water bottles too?

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:30 pm

The reason we don't collect anything but aluminum is because we don't actually take anything away from the area.
The cans are taken in their burlap bags to Gerlach high school, the kids then take them a little at a time to the recycler's and they get the money.
We don't have the resources to do garbage collection, and don't really want to. We will have info on where to take plastic, glass, steel, dead bikes, etc., but won't be intentionally handling any of these.
Part of the reason that our job is so hard is because so many people treat us like we're central garbage collection and processing and that we should be grateful to be able to ride all the way out to their camp on the edge of town and pick up their nasty wet bag of mixed garbage and recycling because we get the aluminum from it.
Many of these people are long time attendees, as well.
Truth is, it currently costs about 3 times as much to run our camp as we raise for the kids at Gerlach High. Last year, including work weekends and off-playa time, I probably worked around 250 hours for this project.
Our primary mission is education and outreach, the cans are a bonus, and provide us a reason to do things like build big crazy dangerous Crushers(my favorite part).

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:34 pm

And now I will post our hours, officially 10:00 am to 5:00 pm monday thru sunday. We do NO collection on the monday after the event, please bring your cans early and often.

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:21 pm

WOOOOHOOOO

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:37 pm

GREEN THE BURN

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:38 am

Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Yeah, if you are just dropping off the cans to the school, it's best to limit it to what they can easily get some cash for. The bottles are worth more for the manditory 5-cent deposit than they are for the value of the glass. And you almost have to pay some places to take plastic.

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 6:40 pm

Apparently there is or was a place near Reno that took plastic. When I get solid info on this I'll post, and or have that info available at Recycle on the playa.

ThePikey · Post by **ThePikey** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:16 pm

One thing I've been thinking about is all the batteries that get used up and thrown into the garbage out on the playa. All that el-wire and misc blinky-ness... Do you guys have any info on battery recycling?

(Thinking of setting up a bucket or two at my campsite for this purpose...)

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:58 pm

I know that at least in the Bay area, most Walgreens will take batteries for recycling. I use rechargables myself. I have one of those solar radios, and i use it to charge batteries for my uv lites. I would highly recommend going to radio schmack and getting their cheapie rechargables. You can get a charger you can plug into your cigarette lighter, and a little solar panel to clip to your car battery. Voila. No more bag full of dead batteries, no more running out of batteries.

ThePikey · Post by **ThePikey** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:29 am

Hm. Good to know. I was also thinking of doing this as a service o' sorts... *I* might be able to do that, but I'm reasonably sure 40,000 people won't. And if I can do something cheap 'n' easy to keep all those nasty heavy metals out of landfills, so much the better.

So I'm figuring on a few small hefty plastic buckets out in front of the camp, with a sign. If they fill up, cool. If not, well there's just that much less moop I gotta schlepp back to the default world. If it's popular, it just might become a regular thing...

Post by **AntiM** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:55 am

One year we were gifted buttons from Battery Recycle Camp, but I don't know what they were really called or if they're doing it again.

Still, the more the merrier!

Desert Duck · Post by **Desert Duck** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:35 pm

Putting a collection bucket in front of your camp may be seen as an invitation to dump crap. If you're going to, here's a couple suggestions. Make sure the buckets are small. Make sure they have tight fitting lids that are hard to open. Put a hole in the lid for the size of batts you want to take- I'd suggest having a separate bucket for watch batts and AA's, and not trying to collect others. These are the most commonly used sizes as well as being the most often found type of battery moop. You can offer to take other batteries in person, but make sure you have a place to take them when you get back. A quick stop into your local drug store, and ask at the photo counter. You may have to take them in a little at a time depending on how many you collect.

I commend you on your effort to divert from the waste stream. Thank you.

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