In 2022 SustainFloyd realized that the best way to reduce plastic waste is by avoiding single use plastics like shopping bags, take-away food containers and product packaging. With so much uncertainty about what happens to plastic waste that we try to recycle it is important that we use as little …
When all the visitors leave and it’s time to move on to a fresh New Year there are abundant opportunities to take the more ecologically friendly road. From the wrappings and packaging of the presents under the tree, the tree itself, the old Christmas lights, unwanted gifts and overstocked food …
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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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 …
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 …
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/
10:00 am to 12:30pm at the Floyd Farmers Market We will be set up at the Farmers Market Extension at the Village Green, right behind the Farmers Market Pavilion. There is easy parking at the Village Green. This time: Special collection of wine corks for a school art project and …
Learn about inexpensive and thoughtful ways to turn your food waste back into nourishment for the soil. Mark gives ideas for low cost, efficient and bear proof composing.
We are excited to share the work some Industrial Design students from Virginia Tech on products made from recycled #5 plastic. Ryan Conklin, collected a big load of the #5 plastic we collected at our recycling event last week for his project. He will be shredding melting, molding and machining …
SustainFloyd is collecting recyclables at the Floyd Farmers Market from 9:30 am to 11:30 am on October 2, October 30, and November 20, 2021. We will be set up at the Farmers Market Extension at the Village Green, right behind the Farmers Market Pavilion.