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ELIMINATING THE IDEA OF WASTE®

The Green Corner: Grand County offers multiple recycling options

As far as up-cycling is concerned, Rocky Mountain Reuse Center is a place one can drop off used construction materials and purchase some for your house. Doors, cabinets, sinks, faucets, lumber and hardware can all be found there. The Resource is also a Terracycle drop off location and they take paired, reusable shoes, Colgate containers, and aluminum cans for the schools (please inform them it is for the school program).

UMF Announces Joan Benoit Samuelson as 2015 Commencement Speaker

Graduating senior Chelsea Lear-Ward from Levant will give the student address. With a major in community health education and a minor in environmental studies, she is interested in helping to promote health through sustainability. She came to UMF as a Mitchell Scholar and has been active on campus interning with the TerraCycle recycling program, coordinating events for the Farmington Farmers Market and helping to raise awareness of domestic violence. After graduation, she will be moving to Washington State to work in the wellness field.

10 of the World’s Coolest, Large-Scale Upcycling Projects

TerraCycle was born in 2001, with a pretty simple idea – worm poop and compost. It’s now a global company, and as such, it would be fairly easy for them to have gone all out remodeling their headquarters in Trenton, New Jersey.That’s not the case, though, and everything about their offices embraces who and what they are – in an incredibly awesome way. The company’s corporate image is evident the moment you walk in the door; the main entryway is decorated with graffiti, but it’s recycled graffiti, rescued from walls outside and remounted on the walls inside.