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Celebrate Freedom with a Pink Trash Can.

July 1, 2010 – 2:26 PM

Independence is a wonderful feeling, one we’ll celebrate for the 234th time on July 4. It’s a birthday of sorts, and the gift is freedom. While the cake may be strawberry shortcake, apple pie or fresh watermelon, the candles are always sparklers that light up a night punctuated by the sounds of John Philip Sousa and blossoming fireworks over the lakes and across the baseball fields.

This July 4th you can also celebrate the promise of a different kind of freedom – the freedom to believe that breast cancer can be detected earlier and treated more successfully. And you can be an important part of it by purchasing a bright pink rolling trash can known as The Pink Cart.

One person’s Pink Cart is another person’s breast cancer trash can. What you call it isn’t nearly as important as what you can do with it, and that list is growing as it rolls out across the nation. The 96- and 64-gallon sizes are perfect at the curb for trash, recyclables or yard waste – they’re the same size and shape as most municipal- or private contractor-provided carts. These rolling pink trash cans also serve in the garage, storage shed or basement, storing sporting goods, toys, seasonal clothing and more. The 35-gallon size is just as helpful for smaller items.

Buy a Pink Cart and the American Cancer Society gets $5.00.That may not sound like a lot, but it will help support the almost 193,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. Approximately 41,000 of them will not survive – that’s a number you can help reduce by picking up the phone and calling your contracted trash hauler or by purchasing a Pink Cart right here. The Pink Cart manufacturer, Cascade Cart Solutions, will give $5.00 to the American Cancer Society for every cart sold. The ACS will use it to help fund over 200 breast cancer awareness projects, committing $118.1 million to explore causes, prevention, early detection, and treatments.

If you can grill a hot dog you can order a Pink Cart.
You can order all three sizes (35-gallon, 64-gallon, and 96-gallon) of The Pink Cart directly from Cascade Cart Solutions.

Send us your Pink Cart photos!
Do something fun with your Pink Cart around the yard, pool, beach, whatever – and send us photos. We’d love to see them! For example, why not enter your Pink Cart in your community Fourth of July parade? You can find photo-sharing instructions on our FAQ page.

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Survivors, Fighters and Supporters help make the Pink Cart a big success at Waste Expo

May 7, 2010 – 4:12 PM

This week, Pink Cart made its debut at Waste Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. The Expo is one of the largest tradeshows in the waste management and recycling industry, and we were inundated with questions from hundreds of attendees and exhibitors wanting to know how to get the Pink Cart. Our Pink booth became a place for people to pair their personal experiences of breast cancer with their professional lives, and we were humbled by the stories they shared with us.

We are survivors

In just the first two hours of the Expo, one of our representatives said 27 women came into the Pink Cart booth and told him they were breast cancer survivors. He stopped counting but the stories kept coming. Many were employees of waste and recycling hauling companies who wanted to hear our thoughts on how they could make the Pink Cart available to their customers and their community. These survivors were passionate about using their influence in the industry to make a difference in the lives of women and their families across the country!

We are fighters

More women came in looking for information on how they could get one or two Pink Carts for themselves or their friends. They often said “this is a great project” or “these are beautiful carts!” After we told them they could buy a Pink Cart online at www.thepinkcart.com, some had even more to say. One woman told us she was just diagnosed with breast cancer in September and her best friend was undergoing lumpectomy surgery that very day.  Many said they were touched by the project and that it gave them a boost of strength and determination in their very personal fight to kick breast cancer to the curb.

We are supporters

Many men and women stopped at our booth to voice their appreciation of the Pink Cart project. They were private citizens, small family owned and operated hauling companies, county and city government officials, employees of large haulers who worked in marketing, purchasing, and even legal counsel! They had all been touched by breast cancer. Some were caregivers and supporters to women who are fighting, some were friends of survivors, and others were honoring loved ones they had lost to the disease. All of them were excited to show their support and solidarity with the women in their lives by rolling out a Pink Cart on trash day.

Help create a world with more birthdays

The American Cancer Society says 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime. When we reflect on the number of stories we’ve heard since we launched the Pink Cart, we know that this disease impacts more than just the person who has it. It impacts their families, their friends, their colleagues, their neighbors. We want you to partner with us and the American Cancer Society to offer support, resources, and treatment for women and men impacted by breast cancer. Call your hauler today and tell them you want a Pink Cart to help raise funds for breast cancer awareness and prevention! Together we can create a world with more birthdays.

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Roll a Pink Cart across your lawn.

May 5, 2010 – 9:44 AM

There are few things more colorful than a spring lawn – green, used to be green, yellow, and pink. As you prepare your yard for the warmer months, raking up the dead grass and fall leaves, and hunting down the dandelions that sprout whenever you turn your back, your best companion is a Pink Cart – the rolling pink trash can that’s at its best when it’s working hard. You’ll find that it’s the perfect place for yard waste, tree clippings, garden mulch – even as a place to store your long-handled yards tools during this busy season.

Roll a Pink Cart through your garage.

The versatile rolling pink trash can is equally handy for cleaning and reorganizing the garage or storage shed. Fill it with recyclables that have piled up since the last fall cookout, or finally organize the skis, ski poles and hockey sticks. And it won’t feel the least bit undignified if you fill it with trash and roll it to the curb when you’re done.

Let the Pink Cart tackle a real challenge.

This year almost 193,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer; approximately 41,000 will not survive.[1] The research to stop these unacceptable losses costs money – you can help by purchasing a Pink Cart right here, or through your contracted trash hauler. The Pink Cart manufacturer, Cascade Cart Solutions, will give $5.00 to the American Cancer Society for every cart sold. The ACS will use it to help fund breast cancer awareness programs,[2] committing $118.1 million to explore causes, treatments and, someday, cures.

It’s easy to buy your Pink Cart.

You can order your 35, 64, or 96-gallon Pink Cart directly from Cascade Cart Solutions.

This spring, as you plan your color palette of yard plantings, be sure to include some Pink Carts in the mix. Think of it as a beautiful bouquet for 193,000 women.

[1] National Cancer Institute – http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/breast

 

[2] American Cancer Society/Cancer Reference Information http://ow.ly/1r2f3

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Some say Pink Trash Can; Some say Pink Cart

April 28, 2010 – 3:04 PM

Some say Pink Cart; some say Pink Can.

What do YOU call it? It has wheels and it rolls, so some say it’s a Pink Cart. But you can keep lots of things in it, so others say it’s a Pink Can. And then there’s the point that the primary use of the Pink Cart is as a trash can, refuse can or recycles can, so …

Just think of what a Pink Can can do.

Let’s focus on that word “can.” You know it can hold, tote, store and haul. But the biggest “can” of all is this: call it a Pink Cart or a Pink Can; either way it can help fund the research that finds the cure for breast cancer, a cure that can save the lives of 41,000 women each year. [1]

You can help with a Pink Can.

Purchase a Pink Cart right here, or through your contracted trash hauler. The manufacturer, Cascade Cart Solutions, will give $5.00 to the American Cancer Society for every cart sold. The ACS will use it to help fund go to breast cancer awareness programs,[2] committing $118.1 million to explore causes, treatments and, someday, cures.

Pink Can, Pink Cart – no matter what you call it, call it yours. Remember, the best answer to the question, “Can we find better treatment and a cure for breast cancer?” is: “We CAN.”

[1] National Cancer Institute – http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/types/breast

 

[2] American Cancer Society/Cancer Reference Information http://ow.ly/1r2f3

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There’s a pink rolling trash cart at the curb!

March 1, 2010 – 2:03 PM

pink-cart-108In thousands of communities across the country, tomorrow morning is trash day, also known as rubbish day or garbage day and, in more forward-thinking, sustainable municipalities, recycles day.

In physicians’ offices across the country, tomorrow is also a day that thousands of women will learn that they have breast cancer, one of the most common forms of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women. And breast cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native women.[1]

The link that ties these seemingly unrelated facts together? Pink rolling trash carts. Here’s how …

Rollin’, rollin’, rollin’, hear those Pink Carts rollin’.

Tonight, in hundreds of thousands of garages across the country, people just like you will be stuffing the family garbage can, cramming plastic bags to the breaking point, separating paper from plastic and plastic from metal, and then carrying or rolling it all to the street for curbside trash pickup. But many of the people rolling waste carts to the curb will also be playing an important role in the war on breast cancer.

Pink Carts welcome the sunrise.

When the sun rises on trash day it shines on block after block of garbage cans, trash bags and rolling waste receptacles, a palette of dull browns, dusty greens, faded blues, bright pinks …

Bright pink carts?

Yes, bright pink rolling trash carts, conspicuous, but in a very good way.

And there’s something about this particular shade of pink; you’ve seen it before on … ribbons.

Pink ribbons! The American Cancer Society, with years of nationwide promotions and publicity, continues to wage war against breast cancer, one of the biggest threats to the lives of wives and sisters, mothers and daughters, friends and lovers.

But how can Pink Carts play a role in the battle?

Pink Carts curb cancer.

Even as appreciation of the simple beauty of the idea of owning a Pink Cart is still taking shape, you’re thinking, “How do I get one?” Next thought: “Buying a Pink Cart is one thing I can do to help curb cancer.”

Rolling a Pink Cart to the street says that you’ve stepped up to support the fight against breast cancer, the disease that claims the lives of more than 41,000 women each year.[2] A Pink Cart says you’ve made a promise to help curb cancer.

Get your own Pink Cart.

Want a Pink Cart of your very own? It’s easy. You can contact Cascade Cart Solutions to find out if your hauler is participating. Or you can order the 35, 64, or 96-gallon Pink Cart on-line directly from Cascade Cart Solutions. $5.00 from each Pink Cart sale goes directly to the American Cancer Society to help fight breast cancer.

The Pink Cart not only rolls, it rocks.

U.S. Cancer Statistics Working Group. United States Cancer Statistics: 1999–2005 Incidence and Mortality Web-based Report. Atlanta (GA): Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Cancer Institute; 2009. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/uscs.

Underlying mortality data provided by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

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