A small group of us were able to met on December 3. Our main goal was to establish a mission statement, goals and strategies. First of all Amy reported back from our subcommittees.
Community Outreach published our first newspaper article and is working on a second one for the New Year. They are trying to publish a facts/tip of the week for free every week. Getting our local schools (specially the Life Science Class)involved in our efforts is also on their agenda. Having recycle bins at athletic events and an aluminium can drive in the Spring is ideas they have thought of.
Economics Committee is gathering information on grants, targeting ones to fund either bins or a recycling site. They are also working on ways to truck recycled products from the site. We do have to start small and focus on money making products. Ken shared his "Survey of recyling programs in small, isolated western towns" an excellent tool for networking, a copy is filed in the bottom drawer of Salmon Valley Stewardship cabinet.
We chose Salmon Valley Stewardship as our advisor and once we have in place a mission statement and our core services they will be able to help us apply for grants. We will need to enter into a fiscal sponsorship, which I will write.
All our important documents will be able to be accessed at our SRR email. Mark the documents with your edits and comments. We will review all of them and produce our final product.
Next meeting time and date will be posted on our blog site.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Hello
My name is McKayla Matlack I am the Director at Salmon River Industries. We are a private non-profit organization that assists adults with Developmental Disabilities to be socially and economically independent. We have been trying to discover ways that we can assit the community in Recycling efforts and we are always looking to help, please keep us in mind. I would love to attend any meetings. Thank you for letting me be part of this.
Monday, November 12, 2007
November Meeting\
Our little SVS office was packed with 20 or more recycling enthusiests enjoying hot spiced wine and cheap beer. We gave our total attention to our guest speaker, Lemhi County Landfill Manager Jack Miller. His fact-filled and informative talk lasted about 45 minutes and by the end we all learned something we didn't know about the landfill. Jack's main goal at the landfill is airspace, using the least amount of space as possible, thus preserving the life of the landfill. Cardboard is picked up from three sites in town, Alco, Saveway and Steele Memorial Hospital. Talk is in the works to have a public cardboard drop site in Salmon, and future plans include a compost area at the landfill. The 11/8 Recorder Herald printed an excellent article about our landfill. To help Jack we can educate the public about recycling. To quote Jack, "A landfill that is not operating properly is nothing but a dump".
We then took reports from subcommittees. Logistics is focusing on ways to resuse and store recyclables, recycling awareness in the community and ways to create uses for recyling items. Economics had identified what other small towns like ours are doing
to give us ideas for our startup efforts. We need to start small and build from our successes. The CO (community outreach) of our group is working on our first news article. Our name is "Salmon, Idaho Recycles" and they plan to have frequent small bits of information in our newspaper with themes of Reduce-Reuse-Rcycle.
Next Steps:
--> Newspaper Article
--> Search for Recycle Center sites
--> December meeting, time and date to be determined
--> Ideas on how to us recycled items locally
reported by Denise
Our little SVS office was packed with 20 or more recycling enthusiests enjoying hot spiced wine and cheap beer. We gave our total attention to our guest speaker, Lemhi County Landfill Manager Jack Miller. His fact-filled and informative talk lasted about 45 minutes and by the end we all learned something we didn't know about the landfill. Jack's main goal at the landfill is airspace, using the least amount of space as possible, thus preserving the life of the landfill. Cardboard is picked up from three sites in town, Alco, Saveway and Steele Memorial Hospital. Talk is in the works to have a public cardboard drop site in Salmon, and future plans include a compost area at the landfill. The 11/8 Recorder Herald printed an excellent article about our landfill. To help Jack we can educate the public about recycling. To quote Jack, "A landfill that is not operating properly is nothing but a dump".
We then took reports from subcommittees. Logistics is focusing on ways to resuse and store recyclables, recycling awareness in the community and ways to create uses for recyling items. Economics had identified what other small towns like ours are doing
to give us ideas for our startup efforts. We need to start small and build from our successes. The CO (community outreach) of our group is working on our first news article. Our name is "Salmon, Idaho Recycles" and they plan to have frequent small bits of information in our newspaper with themes of Reduce-Reuse-Rcycle.
Next Steps:
--> Newspaper Article
--> Search for Recycle Center sites
--> December meeting, time and date to be determined
--> Ideas on how to us recycled items locally
reported by Denise
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Nat. Recycle Day
Hi......is everyone aware that the 15th is America Recycles Day? If not go to www.americarecyclesday.org for info. We will be selling cloth bags at Saveway on the 14th and 15th of Nov....Emily Cohen
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
10/16 Meeting
Recycle and Reuse was the theme for our first meeting. A big thanks to all who attended and made this meeting a tremendous success. We are all committed to making recycling happen here in Salmon but realize that it is a hard journey.
First item of discussion was the recycling options currently available. These will be listed in a separate posting so additions can be added.
Luke Prange discussed past recycling efforts and what went well and what didn't. His knowledge is quite extensive and he has kept documents from those past efforts. He will be our best resource as we lay our groundwork.
Economics of recycling was our next agenda. This changes from year to year and can be the difference between a successful or a failed recycling center. Luckily we have Andrew Shroyer living here in town who has experience running a recycle center and was able to discuss this with us last night. Items with the highest success rate seem to be: cardboard, aluminum, steel, newspaper, phone books, and plastic jugs. We were cautioned to stay away from glass, which is the hardest item to recycle. Transportation limitations may be overcome by a back haul system and having a baler on site is a necessity.
Last item to discuss was who should do a recycling center. Private enterprise with support from
city, county and partners seemed the best solution. The group will look into the sanitation contract and see if that could include transportation of recycling goods. Diverting of these goods could increase the life of the landfill.
Our big group formed three smaller groups: Community Outreach, Logistics and Economics.
These groups created agenda items to research and report back on.
We ended on a hopeful note and agreed to meet in three weeks to gauge our progress. Same setup, our office at 5:30pm, Tuesday, November 6.
First item of discussion was the recycling options currently available. These will be listed in a separate posting so additions can be added.
Luke Prange discussed past recycling efforts and what went well and what didn't. His knowledge is quite extensive and he has kept documents from those past efforts. He will be our best resource as we lay our groundwork.
Economics of recycling was our next agenda. This changes from year to year and can be the difference between a successful or a failed recycling center. Luckily we have Andrew Shroyer living here in town who has experience running a recycle center and was able to discuss this with us last night. Items with the highest success rate seem to be: cardboard, aluminum, steel, newspaper, phone books, and plastic jugs. We were cautioned to stay away from glass, which is the hardest item to recycle. Transportation limitations may be overcome by a back haul system and having a baler on site is a necessity.
Last item to discuss was who should do a recycling center. Private enterprise with support from
city, county and partners seemed the best solution. The group will look into the sanitation contract and see if that could include transportation of recycling goods. Diverting of these goods could increase the life of the landfill.
Our big group formed three smaller groups: Community Outreach, Logistics and Economics.
These groups created agenda items to research and report back on.
We ended on a hopeful note and agreed to meet in three weeks to gauge our progress. Same setup, our office at 5:30pm, Tuesday, November 6.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Welcome to Salmon Recycles!
We had a great meeting last night, October 16,2007. We will be preparing an email list to invite everyone to our new blog. (APPLAUSE!!!!)
We will try to use this blog to correspond, orchestrate and vent about our upcoming recycling program here in Salmon.
Please don't hesitate to use this blog to its full potential. Post your opinions, ideas, and achievements as they happen! Inspire your fellow citizens into action!
Stay tuned for more to come soon.
We will try to use this blog to correspond, orchestrate and vent about our upcoming recycling program here in Salmon.
Please don't hesitate to use this blog to its full potential. Post your opinions, ideas, and achievements as they happen! Inspire your fellow citizens into action!
Stay tuned for more to come soon.
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