In 2025, glass recycling made its return to the Flathead Valley. Black Bear Recycling is a curbside service that offers an option for recycling glass and a variety of other household items. Black Bear processes the material on site in a glass pulverizer. The product of the pulverizer is sand …
Free The Seeds The WasteNot Project will be hosting an educational workshop at Land To Hand Montana’s Free The Seeds event. It will be held March 7th, 2026 from 9 am to 3 pm in the Arts and Technology building at Flathead Valley Community College. For more information, click here. …
In January 2018, the recycling industry experienced a worldwide upset in the global recycling market caused by China’s shutdown of recycling imports. China was accepting about half of the materials collected as recycling in the U.S. Locally, this meant that we lost plastic recycling altogether for a year in 2018. Starting March 5th, …
