Over the past several years, I have been making a sincere attempt to be a more conscientious recycler.
It's now a regular part of my chore routine to load up the car when the garage bins reach especially dangerous proportions and head to one of the numerous recycling centers around the Valley.
While not particularly convenient, it is something that is important to me; a little way in which I can do my part to make a difference.
Come to find out, there's an easier way.
Carson Valley Recycling, LLC, has been in business for one year.
CEO Amber Emery and her husband, CVR Vice President Wes Emery, started the company with the goal of "educating the community in the benefits that recycling can have and to provide a service that is instrumental in the preservation of our surroundings." They want to take the hassle out of recycling and make it flow seamlessly into everyday life.
Amber got the idea for the company when it became too much trouble to store up all their recyclables and find the time to take them to the appropriate places.
"My sister lives in the Bay area where they offer curbside recycling. I figured it couldn't be that difficult to figure out a way to do this," says Amber.
She drew inspiration from Dr. Martin Luther King's quote, "The time is always right to do what is right." After a 2-year approval process, the Emerys got the green light for their new business venture.
Although their curbside recycling service offers pickup twice monthly on the same day as your Douglas Disposal pickup, you do not need to be a client of Douglas Disposal in order to subscribe to the recycling service. They will simply pickup on the same day that Douglas Disposal services you area.
Once you are a subscriber, you will be supplied with stickers and bags in which to place your recyclables. Bags are left on the opposite side of the driveway on your regular trash pickup day so as not to interfere with Douglas Disposal's services.
Allowable recyclables include plastics No. 1-7 with the exception of Styrofoam No. 6, rinsed glass, tin cans and clean tin foil, dry cardboard and paperboard, plastic grocery bags, newspapers, ads, catalogs and magazines, and office paper and junk mail, either shredded or unshredded. It makes an incredible difference in the amount of garbage volume if you simply commit to recycling plastics and cardboard.
For more information, please refer to their Web site at www.cvrecycling.com.
You can also contact the Emerys by phone at 267-6524 or by e-mail at cvrecycling@mac.com.
Their office is located at 2222 Park Place Suite 1F in Minden.
The Web site also offers some inventive ways in which we can all reduce, reuse and recycle.
Amy Roby can be reached at ranchosroundup@hotmail.com
