AMERICA RECYCLES DAY EVENT

On Saturday, November 17, VALCORE Recycling’s twelve member groups will be hosting an America Recycles Day event at their site located at 38 Sheridan Street. Activities are scheduled between 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. and include a community garage sale. Recycling friends are encouraged to bring their old eyeglasses for the Lion’s Recycle for Sight program and cans of food for the Scouting for Food barrel. Scouts will be canvassing Vallejo that weekend picking up donations for their annual food drive.

Since fall is the best planting time, there will be a plant exchange table. Bring in your clippings or drought tolerant plants and take home something new. Information about backyard and earthworm composting bins will be available as well as tours of the active bins.

In the spirit of Too Toxic to Toss, for this Saturday only, VALCORE will be collecting fluorescent tubes and compact fluorescent bulbs. They will also accept household batteries, ink cartridges, cell phones, and laptops, items that they take every day. In addition to dropping off traditional recycling material, they will emphasize the second of the three R’s: ReUse. A recycled craft table will feature making greeting cards and envelopes from old calendars. Customers can also tour VALCORE’s ReUse Barn that is filled with salvaged books, office supplies, and items that can be used for craft projects.

Recycling information for all of Vallejo’s programs as well as county-wide programs will be available. If you can’t make it on Saturday but have items [especially plants] to donate, please call 645-8258 to arrange for a drop off time.

One Thousand Kitchens!
The ReUse People (TRP) of Oakland have contracted to recover for reuse 1000 kitchens from the deconstruction of two south bay apartment complexes. The kitchens are typical apartment size consisting of three base cabinets, three wall cabinets, floor-to-ceiling pantry, sink, countertops, stove, refrigerator and dishwasher. Some units also have washers and dryers.

Some of these units will be sold through their Oakland site listed below, but TRP does not have adequate warehouse space for all 1000 units. They are loading 20 to 25 units on semi-trailers and are contacting nonprofit organizations throughout the Bay Area to offer these materials free of charge. However, interested organizations need to accept a minimum of one trailer load and to pay the transportation expenses to their location.

For more information, call Joe Feller, Operations Manager, at 888 588-9490. Check out their website, www.thereusepeople.org, for monthly specials of salvaged construction materials, or take a friend to TRP ReUse Bazaar located at 9235 San Leandro Street in Oakland (Mon - Fri 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sat and Sun 10:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.)

WRAP congratulations
Three Vallejo Businesses: VALCORE Recycling, Vallejo Chamber of Commerce, and Vallejo Garbage Service, have earned the California 2007 Waste Reduction Award Program honor. Three additional Solano County businesses, Anheuser-Busch in Fairfield, ALZA Corp. and Genentech in Vacaville, were also honored.

Holiday Travel Tip
Are you picking up relatives for the holidays? Do you hate driving round and round the terminal waiting for them to get their luggage and come out? Give your guests your cell phone number and park in the free cell phone parking lots that are available at the San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose airports. The Sacramento airport offers 30 minute free parking in their hourly areas for you to wait.

VALCORE Recycling Board Secretary Jane Bogner's "A Sorted Affair" is published every other week in the Times-Herald, Community Outlook Section. For recycling information call her at 645-8258 or visit www.VALCORErecycling.org.