What started as a family tour around Dr. Bob Black\u2019s ranch landed as an opportunity and an idea for sustainability. Bob, DVM and cattle rancher, and his wife, Shirley, had \u201cmassive stacks\u201d of the empty VitaFerm\u00ae and Vita Charge\u00ae tubs around their ranch, when family toured last Thanksgiving. At the suggestion of a sister-in-law from Texas who said that someone could surely use these empty tubs, Bob decided to start offering them for sale on the popular Facebook Marketplace starting in spring 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy goal is to see an orange tub in every yard in Wichita,\u201d chuckled Katie, Black\u2019s daughter, who works full-time at the Elk County Vet Clinic where Dr. Black practices, while she also studies nursing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Katie said their family lives about an hour from Wichita, and that is where a majority of tubs end up. With her grandmother and an aunt living in Wichita, those driveways often serve as the pick-up point for the tubs that get used for starter gardens, storage bins, water recycling vestibules, cleaning yards of sticks and leaves and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy dad does most of the Facebook postings, listings and monitors all of that,\u201d Katie said. \u201cSome people will come to the clinic or contact him directly because they have heard about all these tubs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Black shared that he enjoys recycling the tubs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHaving a second or third use for the plastic tubs is great and helps recycle a product that otherwise might not be used,\u201d said Dr. Black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BioZyme dealer Bob Black is creating sustainable uses for empty tubs and providing new customers a product that they can readily use. That\u2019s care that comes full circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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