Spray Patterns BY AVA CARIDADEditor Can aerosols be far behind? The aluminum beverage can industry targeted by vigilante gangs who are defending women, according announced it had collected and recycled more than 235,100 to http://www.express.co.uk. The groups are targeting young men lbs. of cans, raising nearly $183,830 for local charities across the suspected of harassing women by spraying them with aerosol country, the Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) announced. The paint, and it’s being hailed the most effective way of cracking Great American Can Roundup Industry Challenge is a nine month down on Cairo’s enduring problem of sex attacks, the Daily competition that involved 87 facilities, including plants and Express reported. Hundreds of forced markings have been carried corporate offices of three major American can manufacturers: out in the capital after the authorities were accused of failing to Rexam, Ball Corp. and Crown Holdings Inc., and two aluminum take action over the reported appalling and degrading treatment suppliers: Alcoa and Novelis. Individual facilities partnered with of young women, the report said. Vigilantes have launched a schools and local organizations to collect and recycle used beverage new crackdown called Estargel (Be a Man) and are exacting cans. Proceeds from the effort will benefit local Ronald McDonald revenge on anyone caught harassing females. The gangs wear House charities; Habitat for Humanity; schools in Findley, OH; The fluorescent yellow vests emblazoned with the words “Harassment Ball Foundation; the Boy Scouts; Keep Blount Beautiful and other prevention” and carry aerosol cans. After spraying suspects’ faces, charities throughout the U.S. More info: www.cancentral.com/ the vigilantes then emblazon his clothing with the words “I am a sustainability. harasser,” explained the Daily Express. “If I was walking in the street and I molested a girl and I got beat up and trashed and had my dignity put into a bin ... I think While not at all advisable, Spray did find the following interesting: the next time I’ll think a thousand times before I try to act funny “Sex pests” on the trouble-torn streets of Cairo are being with a girl,” one vigilante said. The Rutgers University Packaging Engineering Advisory Board held its annual meeting and fundraising dinner at the Piscataway, NJ campus in November. The event was attended by many packaging executives from some of the top beauty and pharmaceutical companies in the New York area, such as Bayer, Estée Lauder and Squibb. Pictured left, former Director of Worldwide Packaging at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Kumar Nanavati (foreground), explains packaging products to a group of Rutgers students. Topline’s Charles Chang (center left); School of Engineering Dean Thomas Farris (center) and Professor Hae Chang Gea, Director of the Rutgers Packaging Engineering Program (center right), are pictured with Rutgers Engineering students. 46 Spray February 2013
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