Will you sleep with me?

 Ummmm, NO!!!   Eeew!!  Who wants to sleep with a dirty old mattress?  Not us!  So what do you do with your dirty old mattress?
Do you dump it in the street?

 Do you dump it along a fence?

 Do you dump it near the light rail?

 

Do you dump it in a field?

Or do you dump it in the landfill where over 20,000,000 mattresses end up every year.  That's right, 20 million mattresses!!!  They don't disappear over night either.  It takes years for them to break down.  The sad part is, everything used to make a mattress is usually 95-100% recyclable.  The difficulty is taking them apart and separating these different materials for use in new products.  We're up to the challenge though, so on July 1st, 2011, we'll start recycling mattresses!  So join us in cutting down on Charlotte's waste stream.  The next time you're ready to throw that mattress to the curb, think about where it will go.  We can assure you, if the city picks it up, it's going to the dump.  

So spend a few bucks and assure your mattress lives on forever!

VW Jetta gets a makeover!

We have been wanting to add some flare to our 2009 VW Jetta for some time now.  We finally found some time to drop her off at the sign shop for these slick, VW Racing inspired graphics.  We'll post some better pictures soon.  What do you think?

2011 St Patrick's Day Parade

 

Junk Rescue was out in force at the 2011 St. Patrick's Day Parade.  With family and friends, we had 8 participants this year and beautiful weather only made this better.  The parade made for a great venue to announce our Mattress Recycling operation beginning July 1st, 2011! 

St. Patrick's Day Parade

 

St Patrick's Day is just around the corner!  Here is a photo of our premier in the 2009 St. Patrick's Day Parade.  Look for us this Saturday as we show off our new graphics and our new 'Single Stream' recycling bins in the 2011 St. Patrick's Day Parade.

See you there!!

Identity Crisis

 

In order to overcome confusion in our business name and better promote our brand, we removed the large 1-800# from the side of of our trucks. We felt that the phone number being displayed this large caused people to think that our business name was "1800JUNK911" when it is in fact, "Junk Rescue" There have been countless occasions when clients or citizens have referred to us as the "1800JUNK" guys or the "JUNK911" crew or "1800JUNK911".  We felt that this confusion was not good for the future of the JUNK RESCUE brand so we decided to accept the expense of having the truck re-lettered before we did any more damage.

   

We spent the better part of a day working on removing the 1800# which was not an easy or fun task.  We then had to remove the excess adhesive and wax the sides of the truck so that the ghost image of the 1800# would not be as easy to see.  We decided that next time we'll just pay the pros to remove any old graphics.

 

Here's the truck prior to removing excess adhesive and waxing the sides.  As you can see, the 1800# was still showing up pretty good.  We were nervous about this but after a good clean and wax, it was not nearly as noticeable.

 

We took our baby to Broome Sign Co. in Concord to have her new letters installed.  We are very excited to show off her new graphics in the QC.  Throw up a wave if you see us around!

Cans for Kids

 

You may have noticed a small red trailer at the corner of our warehouse.  This is a collection trailer for aluminum soda cans.  Junk Rescue is proud to partner with the North Carolina Firefighters' Burned Children Fund to donate all proceeds from the collection of these aluminum cans.  By keeping aluminum cans separate from your regular recycling, they are more valuable and therefore we are paid for the weight of aluminum collected.  100% of the money that we collect from these cans is transferred directly to the burned children fund.  Feel free to help us out with this worthy cause.  If you would like to donate your aluminum cans, feel free to throw them into this trailer.  It is just inside our fence so you should have no problem tossing your cans from the street.  No worries if you miss, we miss all the time.  

We'll tidy up later.  

North Carolina Firefighters' Burned Children Fund

Junk Rescue's New Address

628 E. 27th St.

Junk Rescue is proud to announce our new home at 628 E. 27th St in Charlotte, NC.  We are excited to be a part of the vibrant, NoDa neighborhood.  Our new location is right across the street from Amelie's Bakery.  We thought this would be a good thing, but so far we are spending too much time and money enjoying their yummy treats.  Unfortunately, our facility is not open to the public but we hope to get approval soon to become a recycling drop off center.  If approved, we would be able to accept your standard recyclable in addition to electronics, batteries, light bulbs, furniture, and even mattresses!  We are very interested in our facility becoming a symbol for recycling in the community.  Keep an eye on our warehouse as we will continue to alter its appearance as opportunities present themselves.  If you have any artistic ideas for our address, feel free to send us an email or give us a shout. 
Keep checking back!