News — Rain Barrels

Mike Ruck

February is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast cancer is an indiscriminate disease that strikes thousands of women and men every year. It doesn’t care about race, religion, or zip code.  We have decided to produce a limited number of pink rain barrels to raise money for the cause. For each pink rain barrel we sell, 50% of the proceeds go directly to Y-Me.org, also known as the Breast Cancer Network of Strength. No one should have to face this disease alone. Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization is the only place in the world where someone can call – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365...

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Mike Ruck

How is Moby made?

Moby is a rotationally molded product. Rotational molding, also known as roto-molding, is a molding process for creating many kinds of mostly hollow items, typically of plastic.   A heated hollow mold is filled with a charge or shot weight of material, in our case it’s 100% recycled HDPE – high-density polyethylene. The plastic we use is a combination of pre and post consumer material. The percentage varies depending on what is available. It comes in many different colors so we add black pigment to even out the color. The black is critical to blocking UV as well, thus keeping...

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Mike Ruck

Just posted new Moby images on FB

We get the question all the time – “so I have to drive a big honking SUV and use a bunch of gas to come get my rain barrel to save water?” No. Moby will fit easily into the back seat of almost any car. Check out the new images on Facebook showing how easily Moby will travel. Stay tuned. We have some really good shots we have taken over the years of the many modes of transport used to get Moby home. We will be posting them in the following days. Happy New Year! Mike Facebook

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