WHY RECYCLE?

EPA has been trying to get the community along with other departments to recycle properly so we made our own recycling corner in our building. We have garbage cans set up for plastics, aluminum and glass as well as boxes for batteries, printer ink and cell phones.

several reasons exist as to why we should promote recycling. Recycling helps us to convert our old products into new

useful products. In other words, it is good for the environment. Since we are saving resources and are sending less trash

to the landfills, it helps in reducing air and water pollution Listed below are few reasons why we should all recycle old

products

Reduce pollution: The more you recycle old products the less you will require the need of buying new products. Reduc-

tion in the harmful gasses will not only help in cleaning the environment but will also clean the air we breathe. The more

clean air we breathe the more positive impact it will have on our life

Reduction in Landfills: Size of the landfills can be significantly reduced if we reduce our daily waste and recycle more.

If we don’t recycle the product the landfills site will become more common around the city which will certainly affect

wildlife and environment. So to reduce it we must recycle as much as we can

Conservation of materials: All the new products are made from the raw materials which are procured from harvesting

the earth’s natural resources. For e.g.: you need wood to make paper and wooden products. If more trees are cut down to

make such products it will affect wildlife and environment in a significant way. This can be reduced if recycle more and

more paper and rely less on new products.

Save Energy: When there will be less demand for new products then of course less products will be produced which will

help in saving the energy. Conservation of energy is the key element for the fight against climate change.

Save Money: When you will recycle old products and have less dependency on new products the obviously you will

end up in saving some money. That money can then be used for some other purposes. When recycling is done on large

scale the money saved can have huge impact on your monthly expenditure.

Round Valley Indian Tribes Tribal Environmental Department

Summer Newsletter 2017

We were invited to join Cahto EPA in a snorkel survey on Friday July 14. We had no clue on what

a snorkel survey was or what we needed to do. But we came prepared with our snorkels ready to

swim. It was an awesome experience going under and seeing all the different evasive fish. We

learned how to identify the steel head, what features the Coho have how they react when your un-

der water. Also learned the correct way to do a stream assessment and

Also this was a new experience that we cant wait to try out

in our own streams.

TEPA along with the Health Centers Diabetes Outreach staff volunteered to cook a full day for the youth at the campout on Wednesday June 28. While cooking and serving we had a chance to speak with the youth about recycling. Also we helped out with the registration, we also delivered a couple loads of wood so they can have fire going. We asked local Tribal Member elder Fred

(Coyote) Downey if he would be interested in coming to the campout for a day and do story tell-ing and he said yes he would love to. After dinner and clean up all the youth gathered around the fire and listened to Fred “Coyote” Downey tell some stories, the kids really enjoyed it. Also the Feather Dancers agreed to come out and dance. And TEPA was glad they could help out and bring some entertainment since we are not an program that can take a group of youth over for the week to camp. But we are making plans to team up with building horizons

or at least get some chaperones to take a group of chil-dren from round valley next year.

106 Clean Water Act

Inter Tribal Environment Youth Campout

Illegal dumping is still an ongoing issue and it’s getting worse. So how do we get peo-

ple to stop? We can continue our efforts to collaborate with the community on clean

up days it just takes a day or two to be filled with trash again. Epa is looking for any

ideas, feel free to stop by our office and help us come up with ideas to “STOP” the

Illegal Dumping

Illegal Dumping

As the newly hired 319 Water Tech my duties are to oversee the 319 Competitive

Grant. So for the past month I have been out on field planting left over cottonwood,

willow some buckeye out at lower mill creek which is our current restoration site.

TEPA has been doing this project for a couple years now and our focus is to keep the

newly planted trees alive. We continue to water, loading a water cube into the back of

our trucks to the site and water by a hose. Coming this fall we are looking to hire a

crew to start cleaning out the green house and getting ready to cut and sprig for our

tree planting project once again. We will be looking for cottonwood, willow and buck-

eye. Since we have been doing this project for sometime now it’s getting harder and

harder to find cottonwood trees. So if you know of any trees or if you have one and

need it cut please don't hesitate to call our office @ (707) 983-8204.

Heather Downey

319 Water Tech

epa319@rvit.org

319 Clean Water Act/319 Competitive Grant

What is intended within this page is

information for recycling in your home.

Websites, Email addresses, and other

information have been checked out by

the Tribal Environmental Department.

Round Valley Indian Tribes does not

endorse, promote or benefit financially

from any information that is posted.

Pills are dangerous especially if they fall in the wrong hands or children get a hold of them, this can be fatal. Please take all of your old pills or any unknown and unused pills to the R.V. Indian Health Center they will accept and dispose of them correctly with no questions asked. For more information

contact: (707) 983-6181.

Round Valley Indian health Center

Accepts your sharps in the Biohazard

infectious waste container for free.

Please dispose of these sharps cor-

rectly to avoid any infectious accidents

to others. If you need a container go

to the RV Indian Health Center for a

new one.

Solid Waste Services (800) MY-GARBAGE

www.solidwasteservices.net

csr@solidwasteservices.net

350 Franklin Ave. Willits, CA 95490 or Re-fuse Road Site Covelo.

1-30 Gallon Can $5.00

22.50-Per Cubic Yard

Motor Oil is free for first 20 gallons a day. Tires depend on size $4.00-up

Batteries free disposal

Cell phones and batteries free

Medals $10.00 a yard

Electronics free

Paint latex only limited amount

PAPER AND CARDBOARD

White & Pastel Office Paper

Opened Mail

Magazine & Catalogs

Newspapers & Inserts

Corrugated Cardboard, Flattened

Paper bags

File Folders

Phonebooks

Paper Egg Cartons

Blueprints

Paperback Books

CONTAINERS

Empty Screw-top plastic bottles, jugs & jars

Empty plastic tubs #1-7(No lids, no# 7 PLA compostable

Glass bottles & jars (remove lids)

Aluminum, steel & tin cans (Do not crush)

Clean, balled aluminum foil 2” or larger and pie pans

Paper milk & juice cartons (no caps)

Juice boxes & drink boxes (no foil

pouches)

Metal jar lids & steel bottle caps (loose)

Items that are not recycled:

Plastic bags

Loose plastic caps and lids

Frozen food boxes & ice cream con-tainers

Paper & Styrofoam to go containers

Paper & plastic cups

Plastic clamshell containers for berries, etc..

Plastic microwave trays

Hazardous Waste Hotline

(707) 468-9704

M&M Feed recycles batteries. Please place in a bag or a box de-

pending on how many. No charge for disposal.

REDUCE REUSE RECYCLE

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Please remember to recycle this newsletter. If you do not want to keep them toss in your paper re-cycling. Thank you for helping reduce solid wastes in the ground.

Any questions about items to be recycled, the internet is a great place to look or you may call RV Indian Tribes EPA and we will assist you with any information we can. (707) 983-8204