Teton Valley Community Recycling (TVCR) is excited to announce a change in leadership as Angela Saggiomo, who has passionately led the organization, is stepping away due to personal commitments. We are grateful for Angela’s dedication and are pleased to introduce Kelley Romines as our Interim Executive Director. After serving as the Executive Director of TVCR…
From its humble beginnings as the popular “Bags to Benches” plastic film collection to its current expansion of the Plastic Film Collection Shed behind MD Nursery greenhouse, Teton Valley Community Recycling’s (TVCR) effort to get plastic film collection scaled up to a county wide recycled commodity has had many challenges and many successes thanks to…
Mend Your Old Blue Jeans and Clothes I’ve been saving up some old blue jeans this fall, to recycle them through the Denim Drive. Then, I came across a book at the Valley of the Tetons Library, called Mending Matters, by Katrina Rodabaugh. This book details how to patch and repair your worn wardrobe, especially…
Join Teton Valley Community Recycling at two fun events next week. Monday June 24 is Pint Night—we will be at Grand Teton Brewing in Victor from 5-8 p.m. along with another great Valley non-profit, Teton Full Circle Education. Come and enjoy a cold brew, wood fired sourdough pizzas, fresh local salad, and meet our staff…
Creative Energies Solar, our wonderful local solar installation company, is celebrating its 19 years in business with a new logo. With its office in Victor net-zero energy and many of the employees’ homes with solar panels, these folks are dedicated to what they do and truly embrace sustainability. To put it in their words: “Creative…
In hopes of getting more kids aware of unnecessary household waste and harnessing their creativity to spread awareness throughout Teton Valley about the problems with our disposable lifestyles, Teton Valley Community Recycling has initiated a scholarship prize for the best youth (under 18) designer at this year’s Trashion Show on November 3rd. The Youth Trashion…
Teton Valley Community Recycling was the recipient of a valuable asset in waste diversion this summer thanks to a generous and talented donor who hand-crafted, welded, and plumbed our very own portable Hydration Station. As pubic water fountains seem to be harder to find and more people resort to purchasing single-use, disposable water bottles, TVCR…
One of the biggest sources of contamination in our local recycling stream is well-intentioned recyclers putting the wrong kind of plastic containers or dirty plastic bottles into the “#1 and #2 PLASTIC BOTTLES ONLY!” collection bins. It’s a common mistake because those little triangle symbols on plastic containers are very misleading. A #1 food container,…
Do you envision living in a healthy community that reduces, reuses, recycles, and rethinks its way towards zero waste? Are you interested in making a difference in your community? Do you have skills that you want to share with a small, grassroots organization? You too can be on the front lines of waste diversion in…
As I step into my new role as the Executive Director of Teton Valley Community Recycling, I find myself not only getting a crash course in the finer points of recycling in the US, but an up close look at how we are doing in Teton Valley with our own recycling efforts. The great news…