I have noticed many refundable beverage containers being tossed into overflowing garbage containers outside of various businesses throughout our city. These refundable containers are not trash! There are many people in our city who, for varying reasons, need these to survive.
Please, if you own a business, place a refundable-only container alongside your outside garbage can, so that those who need the containers can collect them without having to sort through various litter.
I have also found refundable beverage containers in both the garbage and recycle dumpsters at the complex that I live at. If you are the manager of any residential complex in the city, perhaps you can arrange to have a refundable-only bin placed alongside the dumpsters, so that those who need the containers can easily attain them?
I understand that many people just don’t have the time, or they just don’t care. However, as a city with many homeless and poverty-stricken residents, we can do better.
Please do not toss your refundable beverage containers into the trash cans or dumpster bins. Please place them beside the bins, so people who need them can easily pick them up. Or, if your complex does not permit that, please contact someone who is collecting them so they can pick them up from you.
If you don’t know anyone or any organization who will take your donations of refundable beverage containers, please contact me, as I am personally conducting an ongoing bottle drive for a deserving elderly gentleman and his ailing wife, who, because of personal family reasons, require anonymity.
Please contact me at natalieleffler@outlook.com if you wish to donate your refundable beverage containers. If you have no way to deliver, then I will gladly arrange to pick them up.
Natalie Leffler
Penticton