for people, so he built a special pedal-powered contraption to crush cans, and he also gave mallets for people to hand-crush cans. He said that some people seemed to imagine their least favorite person, such as their boss, as the target while whacking the cans. (Managers, take note: maybe you can kill two birds with one stone: sublimate your underlings’ unhappy feelings into recycling.)

Recycle Camp still continues that tradition today. Check out this photo of Recycle Camp from this past event, 2009:

Volunteers bicycle around the city to collect cans, and people also bring their cans to Recycle Camp. The fellow at the left is transferring collected cans into a container, which he will then dump onto the sorting table. At the sorting table, people push recyclable cans towardsOfficials note that the program allows students to get hands-on experience in the labs by making birdhouses, cookies, and pizza, nail designs, welding nameplates, crafting succulent gardens and more. The Woods and Water group spent much of its time outside exploring the ponds and fish on the BCC campus.

“Kids are learning more and more at earlier times, so you might as well expose them to everything that is potentially out there,” said Frank Polen, BCC Director of Curriculum and Adult Education.

The camp culminated with a student showcase Thursday for parents to see what the students worked on during their time at BCC. The students also took home many of their projects. This was Buckeye Career Center’s second Career Exploration Summer Camp, with the camp growing from 65 campers