Cans For Cats

Help the planet and our cats at the same time! Give us your crushed, clean aluminum beverage cans or cleaned, labeless cat food cans. In one week, we make about $80 from can recyling; we would like to double that this year.

There are two large bins immediately inside our gates, outside the shelter. Cans can be in plastic or paper bags. The recycling facility  accepts aluminum beverage cans, cat food cans and steel food cans, but they must be kept separate, clean and have their labels removed. Crushing the cans means we can get more of them into our truck and cuts down on the number of trips. And making sure the cans are completely empty means we won’t be attracting yellow jackets and bees to our storage area. Cans can be left any time the outer gates are open, even if the shelter is closed. View map to our location.

This is a great project for young children, teaching good use of natural resources, kindness to animals, responsibility, and that even small efforts can mean a lot.