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	A Flathead Valley resident recycles at the Albertson's in Kalispell. Operation Medicine Cabinet: Safe Disposal for Medications • Protect the Flathead’s Water Quality • Prevent Drug Abuse in Your Neighborhood New Drop-off sites! Now there are THREE places in the valley where you can take your outdated or unwanted medications and over-the-counter drugs for safe disposal. Columbia Falls Police Station: Mon. through Fri., 8am – 6pm Whitefish Police Station: Mon. through Fri., 8am – 5pm Kalispell, Flathead County Justice Center: 24 hours/day, 7 days/week NO NEEDLES OR LIQUIDS, PLEASE. Local pharmacies and the county landfill offer drop-off collection containers for used needles. Liquids may be mixed with kitty litter or coffee grounds and placed in your trash. Safe and secure disposal sites for pharmaceutical products and are an important step toward reducing the growing rate of prescription drug abuse. At the same time, proper disposal helps to protect water quality in the Flathead. Medications should never be flushed or poured down a drain. Endocrine disrupter compounds, pharmaceuticals and personal care products were detected in 13 of 14 shallow groundwater wells that were sampled in the fall of 2010 by the Flathead Lake Biological Station in the Flathead River drainage. Click Here & Check Out our New Pharmaceutical Brochure Click Here for Additional References About Pharmaceuticals Hazardous Waste Drop-off Center for Homeowners Located at the Flathead County Landfill. Open third Saturday of each month by appointment only so you don’t have to wait in line! Accepting: Oil based paints; solvents; strippers; pool/spa chemicals; pesticides/herbicides; fertilizers; cleaners/ poisons. Must be in original, clearly marked, closed containers only. Please do not mix wastes. Call Flathead County Landfill, 758-5910, to schedule drop-off. Annual Hazardous Waste Collection Event for Bussinesses This event can save your business money! It is held the 3rd Friday in May. Call Flathead County Landfill, 758-5910, to schedule participation.
		Classroom Presentations Teachers: It is time to sign your class up for our free classroom presentations (one hour) to help your students become Master Recyclers! Presentations are available on Thursdays and Fridays from March to mid April, when we will begin our School Tours of the Flathead County Landfill on Thursdays and Fridays. On landfill tours (2 hours) your students will learn about and experience the landfill hands-on, from composting, to the proper disposal of hazardous waste, to the process of turning garbage into electricity. These free tours begin (weather permitting) in mid April and run through the end of school in June. Register for both now by calling 756-8993. Rebate! Flathead Electric Cooperative Refrigerator/Freezer Decommissioning Incentive Save energy and get a $50 rebate (bill credit from Flathead Electric Coop) by turning in old, but functional refrigerators and freezers at the Flathead County Landfill. Flathead Electric Coop (FEC) has a NEW rebate program for decommissioning old refrigerators and freezers from people’s homes. Click here for more information on the program or to fill out a form. For a list of rebates offered by Flathead Electric Co-op, click here. Where to Recycle Brochure Not sure where to bring car batteries or can't remember which plastics can be recycled in the Flathead? Click here to download and print the Where to Recycle in the Flathead brochure which provides lots of information on recycling in the Flathead! There are now even more places to recycle in Kalispell! Flathead High School, Glacier High School, and Kalispell Middle School now have blue recycling bins for public use... [MORE] Glass Recycling is HERE! You can bring your glass to be recycled at TARGET on Hwy 93 North of Kalispell New World Recycling Drop-off Site located at 4969 Hwy 2 East, Northeast of Glacier International Airport. No charge, but donations are greatly appreciated to offset costs. Or contact these businesses for curbside pickup New World Recycling 257-5899 Green Machines http://www.valleygreenmachines.com
GOOD NEWS! Now We Can RecycleElectronics Year-Round in the Flathead! (click on the business names for information on what they are doing to ensure electronics are recycled in an environmentally friendly manner): Pacific Steel & Recycling accepts computers, printers, monitors, TVs, and most electronics. 755-7011. They have received certification as a r2-recycler. Best Buy accepts computers, printers, monitors, and cell phones at their stores in Kalispell. 752-1300 Staples accept computers, printers, monitors, and cell phones at their stores in Kalispell. 257-8200 Why Recycle E-waste? Two million tons of electronics are improperly dumped at landfills every year. Each computer monitor alone contains 4 pounds of lead, as well as arsenic, lithium, mercury, beryllium, and other chemicals. For every million cell phones we recycle, 35 thousand pounds of copper, 772 pounds of silver, 75 pounds of gold, and 33 pounds of palladium can be recovered. Checking to make sure that Electronic Waste are recycled in an environmentally save manner is an on-going consumer responsibility. Largely because of consumer pressure most responsible companies are getting independent third-party certification that their E-Waste collections are properly recycled and not shipped and "dumped" in over-seas counties. • Background Information http://www.ban.org/ • Third Party Certification--What you should ask before your recycle. http://www.r2solutions.org/r2practices/r2-standard/ • Not all certification is legitimate. http://www.ban.org/2012/03/01/e-stewards-certification-will-now-include-r2-practices/ Recycling Means Business! Let's create jobs in Montana: 10,000 tons of waste creates 28-296 reuse jobs 10,000 tons of waste creates 36 recycling jobs 10,000 tons of waste creates 6 jobs at a landfill 10,000 tons of waste creates 1 job at an incinerator (all closed in Montana) Sources: EPA 530-F-02-033, 2002 & Institute for Local Self Reliance






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