Loaning and Sharing Video Testimonials   

Laurene B. Hall

Coordinator

Keep DeKalb Beautiful

“We’ve come up with a system where we’re going to loan the stands out to different community groups. Specifically because DeKalb County has a recycling program within the county, we want them to be able to use this as a way that they can do it, not just for the residents, but for their community, for their neighborhood, for their civic organization. So they’ll be able to come and borrow the stands and use it for their event, and then the recyclables that they capture, they can just then give back to DeKalb County for the recycling program that takes care…that takes on there.”

Pat Kaufman

“Hi, I’m Pat Kaufman from sale and public utilities, and I’m just here to tell you that I think the transporter is a great product. We use it to deliver bins to a lot of community festivals and events. We can roll the transporter right off the truck to the event, deliver it to the client, the customer, who are community members, and they can wheel it around and deliver the bins to where they need to deliver it throughout their festival, and collect them at the end of an event, and then we come back on Sunday afternoon or Monday morning and collect the transporter, all reloaded and ready for storage. We do it over the phone. We don’t advertise it; we don’t have it as a option via the web. we just invite people to contact us to talk about event recycling, and then when they contact us we decide whether we’re going to truck five or six over for their small event; or if it’s a larger event, then we’ll just wheel the transporter right onto our truck. Our truck has a Tommy lift gate, so it’s easy to lift it up and drop it off. So, one of the things we do with the transporter, and we keep about 24 bins on there, is we take the transporter to community festivals and events and we’ll drop them off on Friday afternoon before the event even begins to set up on Saturday, and we take a kryptonite cable, a six-foot long, heavy duty, kryptonite cable, with the islets on the end, and I use a combination lock, a heavy duty combination lock, and I’ll tell the person over the phone or via email what the combination is. So they can come to the telephone pole, or the sign, or whatever the, park bench, wherever we decide to deliver the bins to over the phone. I’ll deliver them on Friday, they’ll unlock them, use the unit all weekend, and then on Monday it will be right back in that same spot, all the bins, all secure.”

Jill Haygood

Recyling Coordinator

Outgamie County & Be Smart Coalition

“We just started last year. We bought some Clearstream bins as a group order with two other counties; and we… did a pilot for our Outgamie County Fair. And then Waupaca did a pilot for their Waupaca County Fair; so we kind of did that together, and just learned from each other and what worked and didn’t work. So we went and asked for their buy-in, and I pretty much went there, delivered the bins, set them up, and went there and took them all back after it was done; it was very, very successful. Very little contamination and it worked really, really well.”

George Stilphen

Executive Director

Keep Winston-Salem Beautiful

“Well we bought what we did, the units that we purchased are; She, as Recycling Coordinator of the City of Winston-Salem and I as Executive Director of ‘Keep Winston-Salem Beautiful,’ split the cost of the purchase of these bins, so we -- so it’s a win-win situation for both of us.”

Randy Hartmann

Director

Georgia Department of Community Affairs

“The Department of Community Affairs put together this turn-key program; we’ve awarded thirty-five of these trailers to communities across the state. We expect four and a half million Georgians to see this at special events across the state. We put recycling containers in these trailers so that communities wouldn’t have a storage issue. They would know, they could store the recycling containers at their parking lots, and then they can check-out these containers to event coordinators in their towns, in their counties; so that recycling happens everywhere you are in the state, whether you’re at home, whether you’re at work, or you’re at a special event, where we’re recycling. It’s all about establishing a recycling ethic in Georgia.”