Teton Valley Community Recycling has once again joined forces with Creative Energies Solar to offer the community free use of a cool tool to easily fix your non-functional holiday light strings. There are 4 public locations you can bring your lights to including the GeoTourism Center (at our Recycling Education Center), the Valley of the…
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,…
How to Reduce Electronic Waste Electronic waste is a growing problem. The manufacture of electronics uses rare materials that go into their production and takes a lot of energy. Minimizing e-waste helps to conserve resources and reduces the amount of energy we take from the earth. Reusing the precious metals and plastics in old cell…
The Teton Valley Community Recycling Switch Witch is moving on after a brief stint gathering unwanted Halloween candy at the GeoTourism Center for redistribution to local businesses. Fear not! She’s being replaced by her lesser-known cousin, the Broken Holiday Lights Fairy! TVCR will be collecting your broken light strings at the GeoTourism Center from now…
October 13, 2018 marks the first ever International E-Waste Day. E-waste includes discarded TVs, computers, peripherals (including printers, scanners, fax machines), mice, keyboards, batteries, and cell phones. E-waste represents 2% of America’s trash in landfills, but it equals 70% of overall toxic waste. 20 to 50 million metric tons of e-waste are disposed worldwide every…