TULSA – Advanced Metal Recycling will present to the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma a donation check for $5,766.36 today at 1:30 PM. The funds were generated primarily from a higher-than-normal payment made on recycled aluminum cans Tulsans brought in for Earth Day 2011. Today's donation exceeds Advanced Metal Recycling's original goal of $5,000 because of the public's tremendous response to the can recycling program. AMR purchased 2,277,780 cans in two days between April 22nd and April 23rd this year from Tulsa area customers.
Advanced Metal Recycling paid consumers $0.85 per pound for cans rather than the usual $0.71 per pound rate during the event. In addition, the company made a $0.05 per pound donation to the food bank those two days, meaning AMR paid out $0.90 per pound for aluminum cans in honor of Earth Day.
Nearly 2,400 residents brought in cans over the two-day event, recycling almost 76,000 pounds of aluminum. In addition to funds generated for the food bank through recycled aluminum, AMR also sold special Earth Day t-shirts for $5.00 each with all proceeds going toward the donation. "We should have ordered more shirts, because we sold out the first day," Whitney Kehler, event coordinator and buyer for AMR, said.
During last year's Earth Day event, AMR served 1100 customers and recycled 44,000 pounds of cans during a one-day event.
Advanced Metal Recycling paid consumers $0.85 per pound for cans rather than the usual $0.71 per pound rate during the event. In addition, the company made a $0.05 per pound donation to the food bank those two days, meaning AMR paid out $0.90 per pound for aluminum cans in honor of Earth Day.
Nearly 2,400 residents brought in cans over the two-day event, recycling almost 76,000 pounds of aluminum. In addition to funds generated for the food bank through recycled aluminum, AMR also sold special Earth Day t-shirts for $5.00 each with all proceeds going toward the donation. "We should have ordered more shirts, because we sold out the first day," Whitney Kehler, event coordinator and buyer for AMR, said.
During last year's Earth Day event, AMR served 1100 customers and recycled 44,000 pounds of cans during a one-day event.