What do recycling and street cats have in common? One could essentially save the other!

Why do people throw away deposit bottles in their recycling collection bins? Do they not realize that they have already paid for that beverage bottle to be returned for reuse through the deposit made at purchase?

By tossing it in the regular recycling (non deposits) that it costs even MORE money to the city for refuse removal? Why aren’t folks that dispose of regular recycling in the garbage fined? It is a mandated law in New York to recycle!

A MUCH better solution would be to donate your deposit bottles to the various organizations that support the very community in which they reside.

I run a local non-profit cat rescue that thrives on donated deposit bottles! We need 1,200 bottles/cans to cover the cost of ONE feral, stray or community cats spay or neuter fee. For every ONE street cat sterilized, it prevents at LEAST 200 additional suffering street births. We provide a humane solution of TNVR (Trap/Neuter/Vaccinate/Return) to the residents of Ulster and parts of Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan and Green counties. We can’t do what we do without the support of our communities in which we serve. In 2019 we sterilized 505 street cats, thus preventing at LEAST 121,600 street births from occurring. Together, we can make a difference.

Please consider donating your deposit bottles to us to help save and prevent the suffering of kittens born on the streets. We also have rescued kittens for adoption. Contact CastAsideToSurvive.org (C.A.T.S.) for more information on the many ways to help or receive help.

Remember, BOTH are affected because of humans. One affects the living, one could help save the living!

Kim Kelly

Bloomington