Apr
21
Recycle Eureka will be talking to school children at the Lincoln County Public Schools in Eureka on 4/22 to raise awareness of Earth Day.
Having recently launched it’s initial phase to recycle portable electronics, Recycle Eureka will speak to classes at the Eureka schools to help educate children on the importance of recycling electronic waste. With cell phones being replaced on average once every 18 months, there is increasing need for keeping dangerous materials out of landfills which eventually work their way into ground water, contaminating thousands of gallons of drinking water with chemicals such as Arsenic. Concerned persons may donate their portable electronics (please see Resources section of the web site for more detail) to Recycle Eureka where they will be reused or recycled properly. Proceeds from donated items will help support Recycle Eureka in its ongoing efforts to bring additional recycling opportunities to the Tobacco Valley.
Apr
19
Recycle Eureka helps Glacier Bank with Spruce-up just in time for Rendezvous.
Thanks to lots of volunteer moms, dads, bankers, teachers and children by the dozens, Recycle Eureka prevents a truck-load of recyclables from heading to the Libby Landfill after Spruce-up efforts on April 20. Volunteers worked feverishly in freezing temperatures among dime-sized snow flakes to help clean up downtown Eureka and the outlying areas for the annual Rendezvous festival. Sacks and sacks of aluminum cans, plastic bottles and beer bottles were collected from ditches, parking lots and sidewalks and will now be hauled by Recycle Eureka volunteers to Valley Recycling in Kalispell for processing. A special thank you from us at Recycle Eureka to Jon Leonard at Glacier Bank for including a successful pilot recycling effort for this year’s Spruce-up event!
Feb
20
Carole Tapp makes presentation to Lincoln County School Board February 12, 2008.
Thanks to Superintendent Jim Mepham & the entire Lincoln County School Board, Recycle Eureka will be working in tandem with the School and its administration to launch the recycling program later in 2008. Details about location, materials and specific launching date will become available on the Recycle Eureka blog later this year.