There are many
ways to reduce your
number of trips to
the curb on garbage
day
Windsorites line up to purchase recycle bins,
composters and rain barrels at EWSWA's
annual truckload sale.
Shoppers stroll down Chandler Road in
Windsor during the annual street sale
Upcoming Yard Sales
June 7 MS Yard Sale Windsor
June 7-8 Stoney Point’s First
Town-Wide Sale
June 14 St. John the Baptist Youth
Ministry, Amherstburg
June 14 Mom 2 Mom Sale Essex
June 21-22 The 45th Scout Group &
Dragon Boat Team, Harrow
July 5-6 Brentwood Recovery Home
18 The HUB - June 2014
Computers 4 Kids donates roughly 600 to 650 computers
each year to local children who cannot obtain them on their
own. They accept donations of working and non-working
computers, TVs, VCRs, stereos and more. They also repair
damaged electronics for a fee that goes towards the charity.
Seamus Callaghan has been the operations manager for the
group for the past four years and says it is very fulfilling.
“We try to get out as many computers as possible in a
given year to many needy kids,” said Callaghan. “Our main
goal is to reuse and recycle so we can be able to give those
computers to the kids.”
They currently have a drop-off location for Windsorites at
their home office on Sandwich Street and another for county
residents at Colasanti’s Tropical Gardens in Kingsville. They
also host two yard sales a month for the public to fund the
charity by purchasing refurbished equipment at reduced rates.
Visit their website at http://www.cfkcanada.org/index.html for
more information.
The Habitat for Humanity ReStore and the Household
Chemical Waste Depot collect and sell reused building
supplies at reduced costs at their locations in Windsor.
Inside The Box
There are many ways to reduce your number of trips to
the curb on garbage day. Through composting, digesting and
recycling you can shrink your garbage by more than half. At a
time when the average household in Windsor throws away 502
kg of garbage per year, half makes a huge difference. The
easiest, quickest way to accomplish this is to use your
residential recycling bins – but use them properly.
Though recycling has become more accepted locally in
recent years, we still have a long way to go. Currently,
one-quarter of our population is not recycling at all and the
major factor is inconvenience.
“We know that 25 per cent of the people don’t participate