Come check out The Refill Station at the market! It is an eco-friendly refill shop for the purchasing of bulk cleaning products. Please bring your own bottles (or use one of ours), to refill with laundry detergent, castille soap, dish soap, all purpose cleaner, and more. Just tare your jar, fill …
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We are participating in the NexTrex Challenge. To complete this challenge we need to collect 500 pounds of plastic film in six months! Bring your plastic film to the Farmer’s Market on our recycling day the first Saturday of every month. Once we complete the challenge, you’ll get to enjoy …
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Water is a looming issue: too little of it in some places, too much in others. The small community of Newtok in Alaska is threatened by rising water. It is one of the early US communities to face the extreme situation of needing to relocate a whole community. Unless we …
With the reopening of the Farmers Market we will be offering a monthly recycling event. Here’s a list of the items we will be collecting for recycling this month: #5 Plastic (for example yogurt pots) Medicine Bottles with Caps (labels removed) Plastic Film (for example single use shopping and produce …
SustainFloyd’s latest offering in our online film series is the new documentary The Revolution Generation from Josh & Rebecca Tickell, (Kiss the Earth, Fuel, Pump). The film will be available for on-demand viewing anytime from Earth Day, April 22 to May 22, 2022. Please complete the sign up form below …
Bring your #5 plastic & plastic film Floyd County is working hard to provide recycling options to our community and we have great resources in the recycling containers at the green box sites. Please use those for the commonly recycled items. It is important to clean and sort your recycling so …
This event has been cancelled. Please email us if you have any questions. SustainFloyd is pleased to announce Coming Home to the Living Earth, a week-long in-person retreat on June 4-11, 2022 at Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary in Floyd, Virginia. Join our skilled forest guides and naturalists for a deep dive …
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The film, The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, is available to view from Thursday, January 27 until end of day Sunday, January 30, 2022. To follow up on this powerful films, we have a special discussion scheduled for Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 6:00pm EST. The discussion features Jeffrey Smith of …
We are so excited to be able to share this film with you. This is a new release, still doing the rounds of the film festivals and just being released for community screenings. It is the powerful story of Vandana Shiva. Vandana Shiva is a modern-day revolutionary, and for forty …
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Following the screening of the film ‘The Divided Brain’ we were lucky to be able to offer a webinar featuring two women with experience in brain health to join us in a conversation.Sandy Jahmi Burg is a Certified Focusing Trainer at The International Focusing Institute. She read The Divided Brain …
Join us to recycle #5 plastic, plastic film, printer ink, household batteries, lightly worn sneakers, medicine bottles, razor blades and packaging from Toms, Weleda & Burt’s Bees. We will be making a special collection of e-waste to deliver to Carillion Clinic’s e-waste recycling event in Roanoke. This is also happening …
In addition to our usual collections we will be taking corks for a local school project and surplus gift wrapping materials for our free Sustainable Gift Wrapping service on Dec 18. We’ll also be taking the usual materials, listed on our recycling page: https://sustainfloyd.org/programs/recycling-initiative/