ScrapRight and recycling firms help host charity event

The founders of recycling industry software provider ScrapRIght, Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, have enlisted two scrap recycling firms and a fellow supplier to help contribute to a charity that prepares children for the school year.

Shon Duty, the president of ScrapRight, and his wife, Tammy, helped create the Project Big Love charity event as a way to help children and their families prepare for the upcoming school year by providing a variety of things they may need, ranging from backpacks and school supplies to haircuts and groceries.

At the late summer 2016 Project Big Love event in Mont Alto, Pennsylvania, in the south central part of the state, more than 2,500 children and parents attended, according to a news report prepared by USA Today.

The Duty family, the sponsors it recruits and an assembly of some 1,000 volunteers helped oversee the 2016 event, the fourth Project Big Love event and the largest so far, according to Shon Duty.

Among the companies that helped sponsor the event were recycling firms Conservit, based in Hagerstown, Maryland, and Meridian Recycling, based in Hoboken, New Jersey, and with a location in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Scale and software supplier Weigh Pay Solutions, Loch Lomond, California, also sponsored the event.

Other sponsors recruited by Shon and Tammy Duty include retailers, service firms and media outlets from throughout south central Pennsylvania and the surrounding region.