Thank you to Debbie, John, Brian, Elke, Gary and Andy who all picked up/dropped off this week, and Rotary Club of Glenview Noon sorted today.
This week’s sort yielded 119 winter coats, bringing our three-week total to 281. I feel like we are pacing behind last year, and last year’s count included ALL coats, not just winter coats.
We are not counting non-winter coats this year due to time and process constraints. Non-winter coats and all clothes are being added to inventory at the Deerfield Free Store at Holy Cross for refugee free shopping.
This week’s coats will be distributed on Monday as follows:
Connections for the Homeless (95)
NEW for 2022: North Shore Helpers (14 new coats) . . . note there are many members of Northbrook Chamber involved with this group which supports women/kids in Englewood. They only take new items which are distributed at a holiday event at the Primo Center – a shelter for moms and children.
Stock The Shelves (will split next week’s collection)
PADS (they are Deerfield’s recipient, but will get a small number of our coats)
Thanks for everyone’s support!!
Rick
From Mitch:
As President of Northbrook Rotary I encourage you to donate your winter coats that you no longer wear. Coat Off Your Back, is our service project that provides warm coats for many who can not afford one.
As of today, we have collected 281 coats. There are Rotary drop off barrels at:
Sunset Foods
North Suburban YMCA Northbrook
Village Hall Northbrook
Northbrook Library
Northbrook Bank and Trust-Shermer Road and Sanders Road locations
Sanders Cleaners
Waterways Northbrook
Covenant Living
Orange Theory
You can always bring your coats to our Tuesday Northbrook Rotary lunch meetings and Elke Friedman will collect them.
All coats collected will be distributed to:
Connections for the Homeless,Northshore Helpers,Deerfield Free Store,Refugee One,Ethiopian Community Assoc.,Stock The Shelves,PADS, and World Relief.
The Rotaract Club of Dhaka Orchid has been collecting and cleaning used masks and gloves to mix with cement and create new products from the waste.
By Abdullah Al Fahad, Rotaract Club of Dhaka Orchid, Bangladesh
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented us with a new environmental challenge. Every month, more than 120 billion disposable masks and gloves are being thrown out, with some of them polluting our land and water.
Our Rotaract club, like many, is concerned about the environment. Emboldened by Rotary’s newest cause, protecting the environment, we decided to do something about this problem. We began a recycling effort which we called our Clean Earth project to collect masks that were littering our streets, parking lots, and other common areas and find a way to reuse them.
<<< A member of the club collects discarded masks.
Medical experts have said that the virus can survive up to three days on an object. We place the masks that we pick up in a locked room for three days. Then we bleach them and wash them with detergent over a period of 24 hours. We dry them in sunlight, then tear them into smaller pieces and mix them with cement. We use this mixture to create planting containers filled with soil, which we plant trees inside.
We have also made bricks with the mixture and find it stronger than regular bricks. We are planning to use the bricks to build toilets in rural areas. We are working with other clubs to expand our effort, perhaps creating a recycling center where people could bring their used masks, and we could employ other people to help us turn them into bricks and other products.
As much as 13 millon tons of plastic makes it way into our oceans every year. Masks often contain plastics such as polypropylene with a lifespan of hundreds of years. Rotary members are creative and innovative, and we are sure that with some thought, other clubs could join us in finding ways to convert glove and mask waste into usable commodities. Let’s protect this planet of ours while we embrace Rotary’s newest cause.
When you invite guests, let Helen know so she has a member lead, and Mike know with the lunch order. Guests can pay online in advance using out donate link.
Notify Mike for their lunch/food choice the Sunday prior to the meeting.
Meeting dates and times may change, always check our website for updates.
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