Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:30:16 -0800 (PST)
\nFrom: jenni kempf <\/p>\n
Greetings:<\/p>\n
Although this question is not monitoring specific, I thought I would ask all of you River Experts about purchasing bulk trash bags for River Clean-Ups.<\/p>\n
We go through about 1200 per year and are shopping around for the best deal on bags. We would prefer to buy bags with recycled content, but in the research I have done so far, the bags with recycled content seem to be thinner than the industry standard.<\/p>\n
Does anyone have a recommendation?<\/p>\n
jenni kempf
\nFriends of the Fox River
\nCrystal Lake, IL<\/p>\n
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:43:05 -0800 (PST)
\nFrom: Kelly Stettner <\/p>\n
Try linking your event with a larger one, like American Rivers’ National River Cleanup Week. I found that my watershed council has an annual cleanup event for which they have trash bags printed; both of these options supply me with free bags and a terrific network of support.
\nOr try asking around some local “clean” businesses to see if they have anything you can use; I found a soy candle company that stored their waste wax in large, heavy-duty trash bags. When they had emptied 50 or so, I went and picked them up. The bonus was that our smelly river trash adopted a lovely fragrance!
\nCheers,
\nKelly Stettner<\/p>\n
Black River Action Team (BRAT)
\n45 Coolidge Road
\nSpringfield, VT 05156<\/p>\n
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:14:10 -0600
\nFrom: Chris Riggert <\/p>\n
Hi Jenni, I can\u2019t send an attachment to the ListServe, but if you contact me, I can forward you the list of companies we have used for the Missouri Stream Team\u2019s Stash Your Trash Program. Most of the bags we get are a mesh bag for floaters to use while enjoying our Missouri streams. However, we also have a larger version for stream clean ups, as well as a 3 ml plastic bag large enough to use in a 55 gallon trash can. I can tell you since we are a state agency, the suppliers are based in Missouri (all are out of St. Louis, I believe). <\/p>\n Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:10:37 -0800 Jenni,
\nWe get a pretty good price on these, but most of this is because of the quantities we get every year. For example, we provide over 300,000 of the red mesh bags\u2026mostly to the businesses in the floating industry. But the larger mesh bag, and poly bags go to our volunteers while conducting their stream clean ups.
\nThanks!
\nChris
\nChristopher M. Riggert
\nStream Team Program
\nVolunteer Water Quality Monitoring Coordinator
\nMissouri Department of Conservation
\nP.O. Box 180
\n2901 W. Truman Blvd.
\nJefferson City, MO 65102-0180
\nPhone: (573) 522-4115 ext. 3167
\nFax: (573) 526-0990
\nChris.Riggert@mdc.mo.gov
\nwww.mostreamteam.org<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFrom: Erick Burres <\/p>\n
\nOne of the groups out here in Southern California stopped using single
\nuse bags for their clean ups. They use recycled content bags. The
\ncollected trash is put into a dumpster and the bag is reused.
\nSave Our Beach
\nPO Box 1014
\nSeal Beach, CA 90740
\nPhone 562 884-6764
\nFax (877) 222-6345
\nkim@saveourbeach.org<\/p>\n