Sublette Citizens for Recycling
126 N Bridger in Pinedale
(South of the Ambulance Barn)

Open daily 10 am - 5:30 pm

307-367-4444
Fax: 367-4444

• Aluminum beverage cans - crushed & uncrushed
• Aluminum foil & pie plates
• Tin & steel cans
• Corrugated cardboard - no waxed boxes or coated cardboard
• Brown paper bags
• #1 Plastic Bottles - rinse, remove lids
• #2 Plastic milk jugs (white or opaque) - rinse, remove lids
• #2 Colored plastic jugs, rinse, remove lids and crush
• #2 Plastic Grocery Bags - must be clean

• Computer paper (blue/green bar)
• White paper
• Newspaper
• Bi-Metal Cans
• Office pack (junk mail)- no bright colors, plastic items or plastic coverings
• Magazines - remove plastic covers
• Catalogs - remove plastic covers
• Laser and Ink Jet Printer Cartridges
• Telephone Books
• Books

• Styrofoam
• Hazardous wastes
• Trash
• During December, we collect bagged foam peanuts and bubble wrap in a special bin at the center.

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These handy, durable, locally manufactured totes make great reusable shopping bags. They cost just $12, or $11 if you buy 3 or more. Call, email or stop by the center to get yours today!

More information can be found at: www.americarecyclesday.org

The March equinox is the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Fall in the Southern Hemisphere. It's a day to celebrate ways of living responsibly on the Earth.

The Earth Day Idea

All individuals and institutions have a mutual responsibility to act as Trustees of Earth, seeking the choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, foster peaceful progress, awaken the wonder of life, and realize the best potential for the future of the human adventure.

Official Earth Day website

You Can Help Reduce, Reuse and Recycle!

Start an Office Recycling Program

1. Designate an Office "Recycling Coordinator": Select someone in the office to oversee your recycling program. Your recycling coordinator will be responsible for arranging collection of recyclables, encouraging employees to recycle and overall monitoring of the recycling program.
2. Arrange for Collection: In Pinedale, the recycling center is open daily from 10 am to 5:30 pm. If you have a large load and do not have a way to get the recyclables to the center, you can call the center. We are not funded to collect all recyclables, but will try to help out. We do ask for a small tax-deductible donation in return. Or, designate an employee to deliver your recyclables to the nearest recycling center.
3. Get Recycling Bins: Buy new bins for multiple locations in your office, or transform some existing trash cans into recycling bins ? now that's recycling! For more information on acquiring recycling bins, click here for a sample list of recycling bin vendors or call 1?800?RECYCLE.
4. Identify : You must identify the recyclables in your office. Educate your employees on the various beverage containers, from water bottles to iced tea, sports drinks and soda containers…let your employees know what they can recycle. Or you can contact Susan at the recycling center. We will arrange to meet with your employees and identify what you have that can be recycled in Pinedale. A complete list of what is accepted at the recycling center is provided on this web page.
5. Location, Location, Location: To generate maximum participation, be sure to place recycling bins at each workstation or office, as well as in central areas such as lunchrooms, lounges and office machine rooms.
6. Make it Easy! Label the Bins: Clearly label every recycling bin to indicate EXACTLY what items go in the bin, e.g., "Aluminum Cans." Most aluminum and plastic beverage containers can be recycled.
7. Kick-Off the Recycling Program: Announce your new office recycling program through an event or a series of internal e-mails leading up to the kick-off.
8. Keep Up the Enthusiasm: Create employee recycling incentive programs to keep the momentum going. Here are some simple ideas to keep your employees engaged in recycling:
Reward yourselves for recycling. Recognize employees who reduce the company's waste with a "Recycler of the Month." Let your customers know - distribute new waste reduction and recycling tips to spread the recycling message.

Practice Waste Prevention and Reuse

• Examine the wastes that are generated, and where those wastes come from.
• Identify ways to improve efficiency and eliminate waste.

How to reduce waste:

Buy products that are reusable, durable, concentrated, high quality and repairable.
Consider using re-manufactured fax and printer toner cartridges.
Make double-sided copies when possible.
Reuse envelopes and use two-way envelopes.
Request that deliveries be shipped in returnable containers.
Reuse packing materials (foam peanuts, bubble wrap and cardboard boxes) or find someone who can.
Use voice or e-mail or post memos on a central bulletin board.
Make scratch pads from used paper.
Proof documents on-screen before printing.
Copy drafts on paper already printed on one side.
Donate old magazines or journals to hospitals, clinics, or libraries.
Keep mailing lists current/one copy per address.
Reduce advertising mail by writing to: Direct Marketing Association, Mail Preference Service, P.O. Box 9008, Farmingdale, NY 11735-9008. Send the various versions of your name and ask that they be removed from mailing lists.
Rent instead of buying equipment that is used only occasionally.
Sell or give old furniture and equipment to employees or donate it to a local charity, such as the Food Basket.
Consider using retreaded tires on company vehicles. Rotate tires on a regular basis to prolong tire life. Keep tires properly inflated.
Replace incandescent with fluorescent lights.
Use compost as a topsoil amendment or request that your landscaper do so.
Use durable towels, tablecloths, napkins, dishes, flatware, cups and glasses.
Encourage employees to bring their own mugs and utensils.
Provide condiments in bulk dispensers.
Buy reusable coffee filters or unbleached disposable filters.
Encourage customers to return reusable items (metal hangers to dry cleaners, etc.)
Teach your customers about the importance of waste prevention.

Commitments That Can Really Make a Difference for the Environment

1. Look for Recycling Opportunities: Just finished drinking a bottle of water? Instead of throwing it in the trash, look for the nearest recycling bin, or hold onto your beverage containers until you find a recycling center or bin.
2. Ask for Recycling By Name: Does it ever seem like there aren't enough recycling bins ? You're right…and you can help change that. If your gas station or convenience store doesn't have a recycling bin, ask for one. If you ask for recycling opportunities, you'll get them (it's easier than you think). At the office? Start an office-wide recycling campaign, or put a bin next to your trash can for beverage containers and paper. Call 1-800-RECYCLE or visit www.bottlesandcans.com to learn more.
3. Remember the Other Important "R's" - Reduce and Reuse: Help to lessen the amount of waste by buying items that use little or no packaging, or "buying in bulk" which reduces unnecessary and excessive packaging. Also, find ways to use items over and over again, such as refilling a water bottle.
4. Buy Products Made From Recycled Materials: Resolve to "buy green" by purchasing at least one recycled-content product on a regular basis, such as paper towels or computer paper. Look for the recycling symbol (or "made from post-consumer material") on a wide range of products. There is a growing array of new products made from recycled beverage containers including backyard planter boxes and fleece clothing.
5. Make Your Home a Toxic-Free Environment: Keep your home healthy by reducing unnecessary toxic chemicals. Paints, solvents and other chemicals should be disposed of safely, not flushed down the toilet or poured down the drain. Did you know baking soda and vinegar substitute as great all-purpose cleaners? Other non-toxic household cleaners can be found at many stores. Cut down on pesticides and fertilizers in your garden and you'll limit what gets washed into rivers, bays and the ocean.
6. Get Out of the Car One Day a Week: Resolve to spare the air.
7. Start a Compost Pile to Feed Your Garden: Convert those yard clippings and vegetable peelings and even coffee grounds into nature's fertilizer for your garden. Home composters can be found at most home and garden centers.
8. Enjoy the Great Outdoors: Visit a local, state or national park. Take some time to appreciate Wyoming's world-class natural areas. Get to know some of the parks in your area and beyond.
9. Go Local - Volunteer: Resolve to improve your hometown environment. Sign up for the local clean-up day, tree-planting effort or community garden.
10. Conserve Energy: Cut your monthly energy bills 30 percent by replacing old equipment in your home with state-of-the-art Energy Star products. Get going on those energy-efficient home improvements you've been putting off. Turn off lights when you leave a room and keep the thermostat at 68 degrees or lower in cold weather months, 70-75 degrees or higher in the warm weather months.

Bein' Green: Facts & Tips
Here are some recycling facts and tips to help you think twice before trashing your recyclable beverage containers.

Recycling Facts

• Every 90 days a recycled aluminum can makes its way back on the shelf as something useful.
• 80-100 years: that's the lifespan of an aluminum can that gets tossed into the trash instead of a recycling bin.
• 700 years: that's how long a trashed plastic bottle will sit in a landfill taking up space and refusing to degrade.
• 1 Million Years: Put a glass bottle in a landfill and that's how long it'll sit there doing nothing.

Products Made from Recycled Bottles and Cans

PLASTIC

• T-shirts: Fourteen 20 oz. plastic bottles yield enough fiber for an extra large T-shirt.
• Carpet: It takes fourteen 20 oz. plastic bottles to make one square foot of carpet.
• Fleece Sweater: It takes sixty-three 20 oz. plastic bottles to make a sweater.
• Jacket Fiberfill: Fourteen 20 oz. plastic bottles yield enough fiberfill for a ski jacket.
• Sleeping Bag Fiberfill: It takes eighty-five 20 oz. plastic bottles to make enough fiberfill for a sleeping bag.

GLASS

• Glassware
• New glass containers
• Decorative home décor
• Fiberglass Insulation
• Tile

ALUMINUM

• Picture frames
• Decorative home décor: Bowls, vases, etc.
• Baseball bats

Shopping for Green Products
The hotlinks below will take you to websites that sell wonderful products made from post-consumer and recycled materials. There's a lot out there!

Household Items
Aurora Glass
Fire & Light
Green Glass
Pets
Allergy Control Products
Petco
Planet Dog
Toys
PlayMart, Inc.
Amazing Recycled Products
Walden Sports
Garden & Outdoors
American Plastic Lumber
Environmental Building Products, Inc.
U.S. Plastic Lumber Corp.
Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies
Business
Recycled Office Products
Shasta Visions
Clothing & Jewelry
Clothes Made From Scrap
By the Sea Jewelry

Pinedale 3rd Graders get a first hand tour of the Center and see how items are sorted.

Pinedale Elementary School 3rd Graders visit the Recycling Center.

Do we accept glass?
Unfortunately not at this time. Until we do, please take your glass up to Jackson or down to Rock Springs. Glass must be sorted into brown and clear. Usually no green glass is accepted.

Can all plastics be recycled?
No. There are mainly 7 different types of plastics. We currently are accepting #1 plastic bottles, #2 plastic jugs (clear or colored) & #2 plastic grocery bags.

Why should I purchase products made from recycled material?
Throwing that piece of paper or aluminum can into the recycle bin isn't enough! Recycling is a continuous loop. Purchasing products made from recycled material helps to provide markets for the material you and I recycle every day. By purchasing products made from post consumer recycled material, we are creating the necessary demand for the waste we generate from day to day. Buying recycled products closes the recycling loop and gives our garbage another chance.

How do I tell if a product was made from recycled material?
Post Consumer products contain material that you and I recycle every day. Other products may indicate that they are recyclable or have recyclable products in them. This does not mean that they were manufactured with recycled materials. Buy products that have the post consumer label and remember to make sure it can be reused or recycled. The label indicates the percentage of the product that was made from industrial scrap waste. Always look for the post-consumer recycled content symbol!

How can I reduce unwanted or intrusive advertising?
Junk mail may seem inevitable, but here are some tips to help reduce some of the unwanted mail that clutters your mailbox. Your name, address, and buying habits are a commodity that is regularly sold & traded on the open market. These days organizations you deal with virtually all sell your name unless you specifically ask them to stop. Here are some tips:

Whenever you donate money, order a product or service, or fill out a warranty card, write in large letters, "Please do not sell my name or address". Most organizations will properly mark your name in the computer. Product warranty cards are are often used to collection information on your habits and income, for the sole purpose of targeting direct mail. They are not required in most situations - avoid sending them. 

On the telephone, ask "Please mark my account so that my name is not traded or sold to other companies". 

Your credit card company probably sells your name the most often. Call them and ask them to stop. 

"Contests" where you fill in a little entry blank are almost always fishing expeditions for names. If you fill one out at a football game, for example, expect to get a catalog of football merchandise within a few months. Avoid these if you don't want the mail.

To stop specific types of unwanted paper mail

First class mail: Cross out the address and bar code, circle the first class postage and write "refused: return to sender". Drop in any mail box, it will be returned to the sender. 

Bulk mail: The post office throws away bulk mail it can't deliver, so returning it does no good. Bulk mail is the hardest to deal with because the USPS actively provides addresses, support and encouragement to mailers. However, if "address correction requested" is written on the label: circle "address correction requested" and treat like first class mail. 

Sexually Oriented Advertising (SOA): The only help you'll get from the Post Office in controlling junk mail is for explicit stuff. Fill out USPS forms 1500, 2150 and 2201 if you wish this type of mail to stop. See also dft issue 11. You define what you find to be explicit -- if that's an automobile parts catalog, the post office won't disagree with you. 

Credit offers: The major credit agencies all sell aggregate credit information any bidder. Direct mail and credit companies generate mail based on demographics including zip code, income band and credit payment patterns. Stopping this is easy, you just need your address, former address within two years, and social security number. One call does it all for agencies Equifax, Trans Union, Experian and Innovis. Dial 1-888-5 OPT OUT (or 1-888-567-8688) 24 hours a day. 

Catalogs: Call the company's 800 number and have the label handy. Write your instructions on the mailing label and fax it to the company. Mark "ATTN: customer service". Tear off the label, write your instructions on it, and enclose in the postage-paid ordering envelope. Mark envelope "ATTN: customer service". This method is the least effective. 

America OnLine Discs: You could pave the nation with these, call 1-800-827-6364 (6am-2am EST) to get off the list. 

Publisher's Clearinghouse Sweepstakes: You can get the Clearinghouse to stop clogging your mailbox by contacting customer service at 1-800-645-9242 (8:30 am to 8:30 EST), sending a fax to 1-800-453-0272, mailing to 101 Channel Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050, or you can send email to pch@ant.net. PCH will remove any number of names from a specific address, but you have to list each name exactly and insist nicely. 

American Family Sweepstakes: Ed McMahon and Dick Clark will stop telling you "You have definitely won 11 million dollars (maybe) " if you call them at 1-800-237-2400. AFP is a division of Time-Warner. 

Local business & supermarket fliers: All mailings must be identified, by postal regulations. Each loose-leaf bundle of fliers, by postal regulations, must be delivered at the same time as an address card. Locate this address card; the cards usually have an advertisement and a photograph of a missing child. Call directory assistance to get the phone number of the sender, and call to get off the list. 

Too much junk to deal with individually: Start by sending a postcard or letter to DMA Mail Preference Service, PO Box 9008, Farmingdale NY 11735-9008. Include your complete name, address, zip code and a request to "activate the preference service". 

The Direct Marketing Association estimates that listing with their mail preference service will stop 75% of all national mailings. They process 50,000 requests a month and requests are kept active for five years. If you fill out the post office change of address form, the DMA will track the new address (you'll get a few months of mailings to the new address before they catch up to you). It can take up to six months for your request to be fully processed. For up to five years, this will stop mail from all member organizations that you have not specifically ordered products from. This option may stop catalogs and promotions you would have liked to receive.

The Sublette Recycling Center is always accepting donations. The donations will help us in many ways, such as paying part-time help, maintaining our pickup truck and forklift, insurance, supplies etc. Donations are tax deductible. Please fill out the form below and mail it with your check or money order to the address shown:

Sublette Citizens for Recycling, PO Box 190, Pinedale, WY 82941
307-367-4444
Thank You for your support for Recycling!

Friends and family will receive our newsletter, business and partners will receive our newsletter and a certificate of appreciation, gifts of more than $1,000 will receive our newsletter and Hall of Fame Recognition.

Any gift is appreciated

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Other contact numbers:
Tires, Batteries and Waste Oil
Call Sublette County (307-367-4372) or the State of Wyoming (307-777-7752)

Glass Recycling
Call Jackson Community Recycling (307-733-SORT)
City of Rock Springs (307-362-7547).