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
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