I live in a community in which there are too many homeless people. Some who live in shelters, and some who would rather live under a blanket in the great outdoors. It is much too cold, now for anyone to be living outdoors. I have started saving all my plastic bottles and aluminum cans and give them to the homeless folks who I see from time to time, as they walk across the property. It’s not much, but I figure it may save them some “dumpster diving” trips and enable them to at least get some food. Then, I think if we would all do this, it might become a new income source for many of them. We do use a lot of recyclables now - so why not save them, and give them away instead of throwing them on the ground and polluting the earth or, throwing them away in the trash. Or, start a aluminum can drive locally and recycle, then, use the money to buy food for those who are homeless. A nice warm meal like soup with crackers, or bread, would go a long way to feed the hungry, living on our streets, and back yards, or fields, or parks and ???

Another great example of a small thing that can have a big impact! Lorraine, awesome! Just the simple act of saving the pull tabs from the thousands of sodas and drinks we all consume daily can and will have such a huge affect on children in need, blows my mind.

both of these are great ideas!

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Lorraine, Unfortunately I don’t drink or eat anything canned so don’t have pop-tops that I could collect….but this might be a terrific FaceBook activism ‘group’ to start….if you wanted to expand it…although sounds plenty effective right now. Kudos!!