Re: free wooden pallets

["Cliff Todd" <forester@moscow.com>]

How many times do you hear that line. Guns don't kill, its people. Auto's
don't kill, its the drivers. Pallets can easily be found, tossed into a
pickup and taken to the mountain. Drive around behind the mall, Daily News,
and many other businesses and see the pallets. I cleaned up fifteen
different pallet fires sites on Moscow Mtn this spring. Maybe six pallets to
a fire, that's 90 pallets. And there are still a lot out there.

I would like to see some sort of deposit placed on them from the shippers.
This would encourage: 1. the receivers to send them back. 2. The shippers to
find an alternative. 3. the receivers to secure the pallets so people don't
just walk off with them.

You go ahead and use them for whatever you want. I'm just awfully tired of
cleaning up Moscow Mtn after people.


----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: free wooden pallets


> At 12:05 PM 06/08/2000 -0700, Cliff Todd wrote:
> >Please DON'T give them away!!! Instead, dispose of them properly. Pallets
> >are often used for bonfires at various impromptu party locations on
Moscow
> >Mtn. Often these fires are built in the middle of roads or in front of
gated
> >roads. The pallets contain nails and other metal pieces. Cleaning up
these
> >sites is difficult and time consuming besides being ugly and causing flat
> >tires.
>
> Re-using things are a way of properly disposing of them.  Wooden pallets
> have so many uses, I suspect that less than 0.00001% of them are
improperly
> burned in roads.  The problem is not pallets--it's the people setting the
> fires.
>
>
>
> Bob Hoffmann
> 229 East C St., Suite B
> Moscow, ID  83843  USA
> Phone: (208) 883-0642
> Fax: 1-800-683-3799
>