We were very happy to sponsor our third competition for Virginia Tech Industrial Design students. In the Fall Semester of 2023 we challenged the students to identify sustainability issues facing some Floyd organizations and asked them to offer design solutions. Students visited Red Rooster Coffee, Angels in the Attic, The
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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
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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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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: It is really important that you make sure all items are clean and dry. We will be storing them until we
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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
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/
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The Story of Plastic is an expose revealing the ugly truth behind plastic pollution and the false solution of plastic recycling.
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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
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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
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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.
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Good news! Glass recycling comes to the Greater Roanoke Valley during the week of April 17 through April 22nd. As part of its Earth Day activities, Hollins University, in conjunction with Students for Environmental Action, is sponsoring this recycling event. Their goal is to collect 2000 pounds of residential glass
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