COMMUNITY - Chairs Found in the Recycling Bin

Unfortunately, someone driving a black SUV and pulling a trailer stopped by our recycling bin today.  They threw three wooden chairs with padded seats into the recycling dumpster--that is clearly marked "For Recycling Only".  A couple of our co-owners were out by Building M and saw them and pulled the chairs out of the dumpster.  They then put them in a garage until they find someone to take them to Goodwill to donate.  

There are a few concerns about this situation.  The first being that someone that doesn't live here may be using our dumpster to get rid of their personal items and trash. As a co-owner, if you see this in the future, please report the details to a board member or Berkshire Hathaway to handle it further.

If these chairs were picked up by someone for a co-owner, why didn't they use the SUV or trailer to take them to a donation center? The chairs appear to be in good shape and would be appreciated by someone else if they are donated. We have several organizations in Kalamazoo that would gladly accept them and would have picked them up if they had been contacted.  

Lastly, if the chairs were owned and/or discarded by a co-owner, the co-owner could have easily communicated a "For Sale or Free" post to put on the Bulletin Board in the Newsletter before discarding them. Please keep that in mind in the future if anyone has items to get rid of.

Thank you to the co-owners that helped to remove them from the recycling dumpster and are making arrangements to have them taken somewhere to be donated. We will all at some point have something to get rid of or donate. For future reference I have posted a list of some donation sites in our area (listed under "Donation" in the left-hand column on the blog, part way down the column).