Recycling Update / Plastics Recycling Dec 7-14

Recycling update:

At The S.A.V.E. Foundation’s 4th Birthday Bash last week, we celebrated our successes in bringing recycling and environmental awareness to Helena. Community participation and support allows S.A.V.E. to have a large impact. Growing Friends and S.A.V.E. provided Trash for Trees, which had a fall record of nearly 80,000 pounds of material recycled. Trash for Trees is made possible by the support of the City of Helena, City-County Sanitation, Pacific Steel & Recycling, and The Good Samaritan.

We would also like the thank the sponsors of Erase your E*waste, which collected 80,000 pounds of electronic waste last month. The Helena Transfer Station, City-County Sanitation, Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Lewis & Clark City-County Health Department, Lewis & Clark Water Quality Protection District, Lewis & Clark Landfill, and Pacific Steel & Recycling benefited hundreds of Helenans.

The next plastics collection week is Dec. 7-14 next to Centennial Field. We will be accepting type 1 clear, type 2 clear and type 2 color plastic containers. Please remove lids and rinse bottles.

More information about the plastics collection or S.A.V.E.’s programs is available at .http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

Tyler Evilsizer

S.A.V.E., Americorps Campus Compact

P.O. Box 1481


Savemobile.org

The ZENN of Driving

S.A.V.E. Featured in New West Travel and Outdoor Section:

The ZENN of Driving

By Bill Schneider, 11-17-07

link:
http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/the_zenn_of_driving/C41/L41/

- The S.A.V.E. Foundation, 501(c)(3)

S.A.V.E. Birthday Bash and America Recycles Day Celebration tonight!

S.A.V.E. will celebrate America Recycles Day and our 4th birthday as a community non-profit this evening at 6:30pm at Exploration Works in the Great Northern Center.

Check out today Helena Independent Record:

SAVE celebrates fourth birthday

By LARRY KLINE - Independent Record - 11/15/07

Thanks!

- Savemobile.org

Free Gray Water Demonstration in Missoula this Weekend!

Free Gray Water workshop in Missoula this Saturday! Saving water: one shower at a time

[[Missoula Friends, please post a flyer]]

On Saturday, November 10, S.A.V.E. will be holding a public event about gray water at Home Resource from 12-3 pm. Please attend to learn more about gray water options in Montana, see the gray water system for raffle and observe a demonstration on how to set up your own system using resources available from Home Resource. A display and gray water raffle will remain through the 18th.

Water is a precious resource in the Big Sky State. This summer's fires illustrate the crucial need for water. Between agriculture, ranching, and common household use, we use every single drop.

In the last legislative session, a new law was passed to address water conservation. This new law makes gray water systems legal in the state. A gray water system allows homeowners to reuse wastewater for irrigating their plants or lawns. This law was a return to Montana's rural ranching past, when reusing water was just common sense.

Michele Reinhart (D-Missoula) sponsored the bipartisan legislation, gaining support on both sides of the aisle during the contentious Session. "This a good bill that allows an important water conservation measure, especially as continued drought reminds us how important water is to Montana," she said.

The group that came forward with this legislation, The Student Advocates for Valuing the Environment (S.A.V.E) Foundation, is based in Helena. The group is now traveling around the state to spread the word about the potential for gray water systems. There will be a gray water display at Home Resource this month. The group is also giving away a gray water system in a free raffle. This system, designed for homes of up to five persons, allows a new home or renovation to reuse their non-septic water for irrigation or flushing toilets. In collaboration with Home Resource and the Missoula Urban Demonstration project, the public is invited to attend two workshops demonstrating how to set up your own gray water system without having to purchase a prefabricated system. On Saturday, November 10, S.A.V.E. will be holding a public event about gray water at Home Resource from 12- 3 pm. Please attend to learn more about gray water options in Montana, see the gray water system for raffle and observe a demonstration on how to set up your own system using resources available from Home Resource.

Gray water can comprise up to three-quarters of a house's water use, includes most wash water, and is kept separate from black water, which comes from toilets and kitchen sinks. Gray water systems installed during new construction or renovation use the water to irrigate lawns and trees (typically sub irrigation) or for toilets. When the system is not in use, a valve directs the water to the normal sewage system. Gray water systems offer low-cost urban alternatives to dams and conventional sewer systems. Gray water systems can protect public health and resources, reduce water use, and direct nutrients to soil where they can be readily absorbed.

S.A.V.E. started as a recycling effort at Carroll College in Helena and is now a non-profit which has greatly expanded recycling in Helena. S.A.V.E. members and activists regularly cross the state with country music and an old truck with their "Biodiesel Montana" program, and work on common sense policy to enable environmental stewardship through the "three Rs" of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.

"Protecting the environment is something we can and should do on a daily basis with our choices and habits," said Matthew Elsaesser, S.A.V.E. Director, "measures such as this play an important role."


More information about gray water and S.A.V.E. is available online at Savemobile.org or at 406.431.0815.

America Recycles Day celebration and fundraiser November 15, 2007

S.A.V.E.'s 4th annual America Recycles Day celebration will be November 15, from 6:30p.m. to 8p.m. at Exploration Works! in the Great Northern Center. Event will include snacks, silent and live auction, and presentations on S.A.V.E. recent successes and upcoming goals. This is a great opportunity to learn about S.A.V.E. and support our efforts.

Thanks!

- The S.A.V.E. Foundation, 501(c)(3)

America Recycles Day celebration and fundraiser November 15, 2007

S.A.V.E.'s 4th annual America Recycles Day celebration will be November 15, from 6:30p.m. to 8p.m. at Exploration Works! in the Great Northern Center. Event will include snacks, silent and live auction, and presentations on S.A.V.E. recent successes and upcoming goals. This is a great opportunity to learn about S.A.V.E. and support our efforts.

Thanks!

- The S.A.V.E. Foundation, 501(c)(3)