Our 2019 Impact Report is hot off the presses. Find our what Teton Valley Community Recycling has been up to this past year including working with local contractors to reduce Construction and Demolition waste helping Teton Valley families start backyard composting partnering with local businesses and organizations to reduce event waste promoting waste reduction in…
Earth Day – April 22, 2020 – Join us for Earth Day Teton Valley, a virtual celebration. Due to COVID-19, we’ve taken the Earth Day celebration on-line on Facebook. Throughout the day, there will be lots of interesting presentations and activities for the whole family. You can also watch the recordings on your own schedule.…
The coronavirus is weighing heavily on all of our minds as we roll into April. Fortunately, Teton Valley is responding proactively with most non-essential workers staying home, schools cancelled, Broulim’s and our smaller grocery outlets doing a tremendous job staying stocked and ensuring people’s health and safety. We are fortunate that the hard-working folks at…
By Sue Miller I’m always curious to discover where our recycled items actually go. I was happy to discover that our county “e-waste” is picked up by ROM Recycling from Idaho Falls, and is a family operation, run by Dennis K. He comes and fills his trailer with all manner of things, including e-waste (computers,…
Rethinking Recycling: Thoughts on David Allaway’s March 2020 Webinar March 25, 2020 by Emily Selleck, TVCR Board Something is very wrong… Let’s look at the impact of materials from the perspective of Mother Earth. Up ‘til now, she has provided resources, mineral and biologic, for us to extract, process, transport, and use now and…