The Trashy Tuesday event is moving to a new location. Due to the tremendous community response, the event is being moved to Richland Opportunities, Inc. (ROI) located at 1100 Silurian Lane, Sidney Montana. Each event has collected more and more recyclables which are then transported to ROI for processing. The event will now be held at ROI for ease of processing. When asked about the move, Cindy Eleson, ROI’s executive director and Recycling Advisory Committee member commented, “ROI is excited to have Trashy Tuesday at our location. The events have given the community more recycling options and ROI is honored to be the host. ROI can assist with the processing of the event recyclables and we appreciate people adhering to ROI not taking office paper and plastic #2-7 on a regular basis. ”
The next Trashy Tuesday event will be July 17 from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at ROI’s workshop. The recycling drive will take office paper, aluminum cans, and plastic bottles and plastic jars #1-#7, newspapers, magazines and cardboard. Trashy Tuesday are free to the public and assist the City and the County in lessening the amount of garbage collection and landfill space through recycling.
Trashy Tuesdays events are a self sort process where the public sorts their recyclables into labeled boxes. The Recycling Advisory Committee strongly urges that presorting of recyclables occur prior to coming to the event. All plastic bottles/jars with numbers 1 through 7 and which have a threaded neck are accepted. Every plastic bottle has a “chasing arrow” sign on the bottom and inside the chasing arrow sign is a number. In order to hasten the process, # 1 bottles need to be sorted into one group. Examples of #1 bottles are water, pop, and vegetable oil, and are generally clear plastic. Plastics bottles #2-#7 should be sorted into a second group and include milk jugs, and laundry detergent, pill, and hair product bottles. As long as the container has a threaded neck which is smaller than the base, it can be taken to the drive. The drive will not accept yogurt containers, plastic convenience store glasses, Styrofoam, or any other plastic without a neck or is not threaded. The committee asks that all jugs and bottles be washed out and the lids removed for sanitation purposes. All paper products including junk mail can be recycled with the exception of manila envelopes, cardstock, and bright neon paper. Catalogs and telephone books also cannot be accepted. Newspaper and magazines will be recycled but must be sorted from the office, mail and computer paper. Community members will sort their own office paper and newspapers/magazines into labeled bins at this event.
The Recycling Advisory Committee, a volunteer group, hosts these events and requests that people bring their items only during the event hours. This group is appreciative to the public for their willingness to recycle. Since the committee is giving their time to ensure that these events occur, the participants are encouraged to review what is accepted and presort before coming. Trashy Tuesdays are scheduled the 3rd Tuesday of every 3rd month of the year from 3pm to 7pm. Start collecting today for Trashy Tuesday on July 17th and continue collecting! If you are interested in joining the Recycling Advisory Board, would like to volunteer at the drives or would like more information on recycling drives, please contact Cindy at 406-488-3341, extension 4 or [email protected]. Bring your recyclables to July 17th Trashy Tuesday and “toss it our way.”
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