A TRUE COMMUNITY EFFORT OTHER ITEMS The Can-Do Crew students, while getting job LEFTOVER DRUGS training and experience, do the real legwork in Donʼt flush unused or expired over-the-counter the Ashley Valley program. Supporting or prescription drugs, or pour them down drains, partners include the Vernal Area Chamber of as this contaminates water supplies. You can Commerce, Vernal City, Uintah County, Utah safely and anonymously dispose of these and State University, and the Uintah Basin Applied used hypodermic needles in the Sheriffʼs Drug Technology College. Disposal Box in the Uintah County Public Safety The Chamber Conservation Issues Committee Building, 641 East 300 South. Liquids should be oversees the program and coordinates multi- in tightly sealed containers and placed in sealed agency participation, including city and county zip-lock style plastic bags before disposal. fiscal support. UBATCʼs truck driver training course transports collected materials to Salt CHRISTMAS TREES I’M EXTINCT, Lake City for processing. A grant obtained by Used natural trees with all decorations removed BUT USU enabled the purchase of recycling bins for may be dropped in the parking lot at the corner RECYCLING all district schools, and a baler that compacts of 100 West & 100 North (Vernal City property materials for shipment. Some local businesses behind Old Towne Printing), any time from Dec. IS HERE and agencies also maintain in-house recycling 26 through mid-January. Trees will be chipped FOR GOOD! bins, and contract with the Can-Do Crew for for landscaping mulch in local parks. regular collection. Want to do even more? Here are some ideas: • Help support by buying paper WHY BOTHER TO RECYCLE? products made with post-consumer recycled content whenever possible. Yes, recycling takes a little more effort than just • To reduce the amount of packaging to be tossing everything into a garbage can. However, disposed of, whether by recycling or not, buy when you make this effort, youʼre helping to: food, beverages, pet foods, cleaning supplies, • Conserve finite natural resources such etc., in the largest size thatʼs practical–which is as minerals and petroleum, and prevent using usually also more economical. renewable resources (such as trees for paper) • Only a small percentage of discarded plastics faster than they can be replenished. get recycled. You can help conserve more • save energy; recycling aluminum, for resources, including the fossil fuels used to example, takes 95% less energy than making produce, transport, and reprocess plastics, new aluminum from bauxite ore. by using refillable beverage bottles and • Save water; recycling paper takes less than reusable shopping bags. Many stores give a one-fourth as much water as making new paper small discount for bringing your own bag. from virgin wood pulp. • Do you have clothing, furniture, housewares, • Reduce air and water , both by decor, tools, sports gear, toys, surplus lumber, saving energy and water in processing, and yard supplies, or other items that are still good, by keeping hazardous materials out of landfills but youʼre no longer using? Donate them to a and incinerators. charity rummage sale, take them to Deseret • Create more jobs than either landfills or Industries, or offer them online (must be free, incinerators do. no strings attached) on Freecycle: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Vernalfreecycle/ THANK YOU FOR RECYCLING! April 2013 COMMUNITY WHAT YOU CAN RECYCLE IN THE COMMUNITY RECYCLING PROGRAM: RECYCLING CENTER PAPER PLASTICS Building B ALL KINDS AND COLORS including newspaper, The program now accepts the two most common Vernal Junior High School office/copier, envelopes (plastic windows okay), plastics, #1 (most water & soft drink bottles, & some 1061 West 250 North shredded paper (must be bagged), magazines, other containers) and #2 (most milk jugs & some paperboard boxes (thin, cereal-type), phone books, other containers, including motor oil bottles); check 250 NORTH paperback & hardcover books. No need to sort the recycle logo & number, usually on the bottom of different types, but please keep sticky-label sheets, the item. Please empty and rinse out all bottles & plastic cards (sometimes in junk mail), & food containers. out. Our collected paper is currently recycled into WEST WEST WEST building insulation. CORRUGATED CARDBOARD 00 8 1100 1100 1000 Please remove any wood or plastic-foam inserts and ALUMINUM CANS AND (TIN) CANS flatten boxes. VERNAL 100 NORTH Please empty cans and rinse out food residues. JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WHAT ELSE YOU CAN RECYCLE AT OTHER SITES/BUSINESSES IN VERNAL:

WEST MAIN ST METALS USED MOTOR OIL / AUTO BATTERIES The following businesses accept most kinds of If you change your own oil, never pour it down metal (iron, steel, brass, copper, and aluminum), a storm drain, which pollutes water supplies. WEST HWY 40 such as aluminum cans, plumbing fixtures, lawn Used oil accepted at the following sites can be chair frames, gutters, appliances (no Freon), autos re-refined into lubricants or fuels. The Can-Do Crew, as part of the Uintah School and auto parts, bicycles, etc. Plus, theyʼll pay you OʼReilly Auto Parts * Wal-Mart Tire & Lube * Districtʼs Community Employment Placement the current per-pound rate for each type of metal. 1025 W. Hwy. 40 1851 W. Hwy. 40 Project, collects, sorts, bales, and ships out Basin Industries * Montgomery Recycling 789-2066 781-8599 recyclable materials from its base at Vernal 1120 E. 1500 South 1120 S. 1500 East Uintah Auto & Homes Western Petroleum Junior High School. The bins in front of Building 789-7111 789-2136 295 W. Main 1521 E. 1500 S. B, behind the main school building, are the best 789-5036 789-1832 place to drop off the recyclables listed above PLASTICS Uintah County Landfill right, and on school days, staff are usually on Various stores including Smithʼs Food & Drug, Wal- 2801 E. 500 N. / 789-6018 site to help until about 10 a.m. Mart, Loweʼs, & some others have bins near the doors to recycle plastic shopping bags. Wal-Mart Sites marked * above and at left also accept auto Additional drop-off sites are located at: also accepts plastic beverage bottles. batteries. • 200 South just off 600 West, in the parking lot between Vernal Middle School and the old ELECTRONICS & MISCELLANEOUS swimming pool building; be sure to use the dark Staples (1149 W. Hwy. 40; 789-3870) accepts computers, monitors, printers & peripherals; inkjet & toner blue trailer with recycling logos, not the light cartridges also accepted, with reimbursement on your rewards card. blue dumpster that may be in the same lot. Loweʼs (2105 W. Hwy. 40; 781-9400), and Miltʼs Ace Home Center (690 W. Main; 789-2150) accept • IFA parking lot in Naples, just off East compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs and rechargeable power tool batteries (under 11 lbs at Loweʼs; Highway 40 at 1100 South; same style trailer. cell/cordless phone batteries also accepted at Miltʼs). Loweʼs also takes Christmas lights. The trailers may be temporarily absent from Tricounty Health (133 S. 500 E.; 247-1177) accepts CFL bulbs and other mercury-containing items these sites during pick-up, but bins are always such as older thermometers, thermostats, and many types of automotive switches. available at the main Vernal Junior High site. Uintah County Landfill accepts refrigerators, with a $15 charge to remove Freon. And Rocky Mountain Power will pay you $30 for an older, still-working refrigerator or freezer (to encourage use of more energy- efficient models); see details at http://www.rockymountainpower.net/res/sem/epi/utah/roa.html