[Reclaimmayday] Can Recycling to raise funds

[Jules]

Hello again :)

I'm of the belief that it was mentioned at one of the planning meetings 
that can recycling to raise funds wouldn't be worth it for a small 
amount of cans and there were more important issues that needed sorting 
before this was considered.  With the more important issues sorted or at 
least underway, do people have the time or inclination to discuss 
anything further now?

An estimate of worth was about 1000 cans (approx. 2 bin bags of crushed 
cans?) would get  us about a tenner so not worth doing on a small scale 
- but if there are enough of us doing it, or doing it regularly it might 
be more viable.

I spoke with the bar collective at the 1in12 club who were happy to take 
on the co-ordination of receipt and storage of cans if the club was 
utilised as a collection space (although I forgot to take this to the 
members meeting to see if the members of the club as a whole were okay 
with this), and also provided there were a few willing people that could 
offer transport assistance occasionally.

The reason that I am banging on about this again is that:-

I think recycling of resources is really important;

it provides a means of income for the May Day committee that can be 
continued once this years event is paid up and might contribute 
something towards next years event;

it would be viable if enough people got involved in order to collect 
cans (even from their own homes)

if advertised that this is what we are doing, would provide a means for 
which other local groups could link in with May Day group throughout the 
year.  An example of this would be that if all the members of the Save 
the Odeon group also collected and donated their cans, they would get a 
share of the money raised to go towards their fundraising.

Bradford would look so much better with a little less litter.

Metal prices are relatively high at the minute aren't they?



Jules x