Interested in reusing building materials? Methow Recycles wants to know. Methow Recycles is soliciting opinions on the potential for a service that would allow people to reuse building materials. The service would allow people to donate reusable building materials to a reuse center, where the materials would be sold at a low price. Materials could […]
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Recycle metal scrap from fires
Methow Recycles is teaming up with Cascade Concrete and local contractors to help residents who lost their homes to fire deal with metal material left in the ashes, such as roofing, appliances, farm equipment, vehicles or other metal that has value. Homeowners can receive payment for the metal, or can direct the proceeds to Methow […]
Community briefs: June 4, 2014
This week: ‘Weed-a-thon’ fundraiser for LBHS students on Thursday, June 5, Metal drive continues Saturday and Vacation Bible school in July.
Heavy metal
Volunteers Don McIvor (in truck) and Steve Oulman unload a washing machine at last Sunday’s Methow Recycles metal drive. The next drive is set for June 7.
Metal drive starts Sunday
The Methow Recycles annual metal drive starts Sunday (May 25) with free drop-off of most scrap metals from 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Cascade Concrete on Horizon Flats Road in Winthrop. The second day of the drive will be June 7. Acceptable materials include appliances, “things with engines” (farm, garden and lawn equipment), wire, cable, pipe, […]
Sorting it out for Earth Day
Methow Recycles Plant Manager Susan Ernsdorff, left, WasteWise Methow owner Casey Bouchard, and volunteer litter picker-uppers Jane Hubrig and Kris Borgias sort litter picked up off valley roadsides on Saturday at the Winthrop Town Trailhead
Got plastic? You can recycle more of it now
Methow Recycles and WasteWise are now able to recycle a much wider variety of plastic products as well as milk, juice and soup boxes. “The most frequently heard question from Methow Recycles’ customers is, ‘why can’t I recycle my yogurt tubs, lettuce boxes and milk cartons,’” said Susan Ernsdorff, plant manager for Methow Recycles. Now […]
Community briefs: March 5, 2014
This week: Recycle some big metal, Beer and bikes and Options for long-term care
Glass and gravel: alliance helps solve problem
By Laurelle Walsh
Two valley businesses, Cascade Concrete in Winthrop and Methow Recycles in Twisp, joined forces last year to find a new solution to the problem of glass recycling in the Methow. Locally discarded glass …
Hubrig, Havens named to Methow Recycles board
Methow Recycles has named valley residents Jane Hubrig and Walt Havens to its board of directors. Hubrig moved to the Methow Valley full-time in 2008 with her husband, Kris, and daughters Larkin and Sage. She is the managing director at The Merc Playhouse and serves on the board of the Twisp Chamber of Commerce. Before […]
