A great day

Cook Vandergrift employees take part in Adopt-A-Highway cleanup event

By Cook Vandergrift’s Joe Felschow, senior Machine Shop technician and Cindy Connor, Logistics leader

On Saturday, October 15, a group of us from Cook Vandergrift took part in an Adopt-A-Highway cleanup day. The work was hard and dirty, but the weather was perfect and the team camaraderie was great!

The most common forms of litter (and their lifespan) include glass bottles (about 1 million years), plastic water bottles (70 years), aluminum cans (200 to 500 years), cigarette butts (1 to 5 years), degradable plastic bags (10 to 20 years), and candy wrappers (1 to 3 months). At our Adopt-A-Highway event, our team came across every one of these types of litter, and did our part to clean the environment in the community in which we do business.

Poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote:

“To leave the world a better place, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived — that is to have succeeded.”

So, we showed up one sunny October day and did just that.

It was a great day.

 

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