Each week, volunteers from the Ciel bleu pour Matthieu association, which fights childhood cancer, meet at Valengreen in Marly. Philippe Canlers, its president, details the different stages of the collection of caps, capsules and metal up to the donation.
Published: September 5, 2022 at 7:47 pm
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Warehousing
The 6 Fonds des Douze-Muids in Saulttain, the speech of Philippe Canlers, president of the association Blue skies for Matthieu and Elizabeth his wife. A house, a warehouse for the capsules, caps and metal deposited daily by donors.
On Thursday morning, Marie-Thérèse Hautcoeur, Dolorès Berthe, her husband Joël and Bernard Archambaud join Philippe Canlers at his home. The latter finishes loading bags of multicolored caps into the association’s Citroën Berlingo. ” This is a recent arrival from the Saint-Amand-les-Eaux basketball club “, Specifies the president.
Sorting
The team takes off. Head of the Valengreen company in Marly, two streets away. At the rear of the car park, two prefabricated buildings, one for storing the other for sorting. In the sorting room, a perforated table allows you to insert capsules and caps, which fall into hessian sacks. “
Sometimes we find cardboard, garbage, not too much gloves to handle all of this “, Dolores points out.
On the next table, Philippe and Bernard check the metal using a magnet. The cans are then crushed by two compactors. Meanwhile, outside, Joël crushes the tin cans with a pestle. At the end of this sorting and compaction phase, the material is put back into bags. The metal is stored on site while the plastic caps are repatriated in front of Philippe’s garage. Five containers with a capacity of 150 kg each are filled gradually.
The update
The collection of metals takes place twice a year. A farmer from Saultin arrives with his tractor on the Valengreen site. The dumpster filled to the brim with caps and crushed cans leaves for Métaltech in Quiévrechain. Caps are collected more regularly. Every six weeks, the 18-tonne driver exchanges full containers for five empty ones. His cargo is taken to Maubeuge in Sarplastic. The metal is resold at the current price. Plastic is crushed into flakes and then melted into the production of plastic items. These harvests allow the association to recover from 4 to 5,000 euros per year. ” In total, all our actions, including sporting and cultural ones, have allowed us to raise € 150,000 since 2014, the year the association was created. “
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