Move-out sale to benefit CAPSA, Aggie Recyclers
Aggie Recyclers and CAPSA (Community Abuse Prevention Service Agency) will be beginning a month-long project starting April 27 until May 21. They will be collecting all kinds of materials from on-campus housing and residence halls, including Aggie Village, that will be sold in a two-day garage sale.
Sam Abbot, co-president of Aggie Recyclers, called the sale “a great last effort for their recycling effort during the current school year and a positive way to generate needed funds for their projects planned for the next school year.
“We get a lot of stuff every year, an unprocessable amount of things, like tons of clothes, sets of dishes and other kitchen stuff.”
Abbot said there will be two to four bins in the lounge rooms of residence halls for people to put clothes, kitchen items, food and other household items. Collectors will come and grab the items once a day. However, during Finals Week, they will collect twice a day. Abbot said the items will be taken to the Recycling Center.
Anyone can volunteer to help with the sorting and processing, Abbot said, noting that this is a great way to fulfill service hours.
“It is actually really fun to sort through the stuff,” he said. “There is a high flow of totally bomber, never-seen-before clothing styles there. This can be, as it was for me last year, a great baptism into women’s clothing for any male who is in need of that knowledge.”
After the sorting is complete, the Recyclers will hold a large garage sale to vend off all that was collected during the month-long collection period.
Abbot said that by selling used items, factories reduce production of “newly processed, unneeded stuff” and landfills are unburdened of reusable items. Also, the garage sale will raise funds for the Recyclers’ agenda next year, he said.
“These funds pay for activities, such as the recent Earth Day activities, bands that play at activities, transportation and all their program activities,” Abbot said.
One big program that the garage sale will help fund immensely, Abbot said, is the Campus Composting program, which reuses organic waste collected on campus. He said next school year there may be bins for organic waste.
“This organic waste will be turned naturally into compost that could be used for campus landscaping and the Student Organic Farm,” he said.
The final garage sale is scheduled for May 21 and May 28 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Logan City Hall in the front lawn, which is on the corner of Main Street and 200 West.
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