MVR NEWSLETTER: FALL 2004

What's new? Justin Walsh of Bearpaw Whitewater Guiding has joined the MVR team and will be driving glass and Tuesday blue bin routes. Andy is still our main driver and has been doing an outstanding job. Darin is the "office guy" and will be answering the phone and returning calls. Tom has been working on the web page, and looking for more businesses to recycle white office paper with us. The glass recycling has helped our bonus! We have welcomed 3 dozen new residential customers signing up in the last quarter.

We now have a web page at: www.missoulavalleyrecycling.com (no email or e-commerce).
The page is designed and hosted by Bob and Beth Jaffe at Cedar Mountain Software. Now you can find the answer to many of your questions on our web page! Hope you like it.

Holidays this quarter: Thanksgiving (4th Thursday). Pickup on the following Friday.

Community Resources In Recycling:

Palmer Electric is the only place you can take electronic waste at this time. They charge 55cents a pound and accept keyboards, mouse, printers and all other peripheral devices. They charge to dispose of TVs and CRT monitors. They also recycle fluorescent lights and recover all gasses and oxides used in fluorescent light tubes and compact fluorescent bulbs.

ReCompute Computers: they can accept some computer donations but specialize is software repair and reselling used computers and laptops at very affordable prices.

Home Resource: donate used building material of all sorts. (Over 40% of total landfill is construction waste)

Pacific Steel: washers, dryers and microwaves can be dropped of during daylight hours; also old engine blocks, transmissions and all scrap metals. (Refrigerators have to be certified that all Freon has been removed by a licensed appliance store then they can be dropped off.)

BFI-RecycleNow on West Broadway: drop off site for all domestic recyclables except for glass. They pay for some items like aluminum and copper.

Eko-Compost: $20 a truck load to dump yard-waste and tree branches.

Cell phones: most cellular dealerships have a recycle bin for old phones and batteries.

TreeCycle: complete the loop and buy recycled paper products like office paper and notebooks.

Ace Hardware: 18 gallon blue "We Recycle" tubs- $11.79 (with pre-drilled drainage holes)

HomeWORD is doing a clear glass drive over the next few months, to have solid glass bricks made to replace the old hollow glass pavers at the GoldDust Appartments. Each glass brick will have a saying or memory about the North Side etched into them, and they will be backlit at night.

Sustainable Business Council: Local businesses supporting like-minded sustainable businesses. www.sustainablebusinesscouncil.org.

Thank you to everyone who recycles, reduces, and reuses. In the long run it is really better for us humans to reuse and recycle our resources. Lets keep the cycle alive.

As the Webster’s Dictionary defines it: “Recycling: Using again and again and again." We hope to serve you well and you are encouraged to call us anytime with comments, questions, and suggestions.

We believe that curbside recycling, is the most environmental way to recycle.

WE ARE MISSOULA VALLEY RECYCLING.
PO BOX 9458 MISSOULA, MT. 59807: www.missoulavalleyrecycling.com