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by Paula M. Manini
\"WJ<\/a>TRINIDAD \u2014 Terra Firma Recycling announces new and upcoming projects to expand services and encourage recycling. \u00a0Located two miles from downtown Trinidad, Terra Firma is a regional facility open to everyone. \u00a0From Main Street go west on Arizona Avenue, pass the Masonic Cemetery, and follow signs over and up one street to the recycling center, which is open Monday-Friday, 9 am-4 pm, and Saturday, 9 am-noon.\u00a0
Kelli and Jeremy Van Matre started Terra Firma, a non-profit organization, in January 2014 to fill a demand for year-round recycling. \u00a0Every day, 25-50 people bring cardboard, other paper products, and plastic and metal items to the recycling center instead of to local landfills. \u00a0To date, Terra Firma has sold over 320,000 pounds of material on the recyclables market.
Twin Enviro Services is a Colorado waste collection company with several environmental initiatives. \u00a0Locally they collect recyclables in a big roll out for the U.S. Army at the Pi\u00f1on Canyon Manuever Site and haul the full container to Terra Firma. \u00a0
A few months ago, Terry Gordon, the customer service manager, started another program to help Terra Firma. \u00a0Twin Enviro provides employees and a trailer to pick up cardboard from commercial customers on behalf of Terra Firma. \u00a0So far twenty businesses have signed up for the \u201ccardboard route\u201d which has scheduling and container options.\u00a0
Later this summer, Terra Firma will offer a paint recycling program in conjunction with PaintCare. \u00a0The non-profit organization works in states with paint disposal laws by training workers and setting up locations where people can take unwanted paint. \u00a0
Terra Firma also is partnering with Rich Columbo, who \u201cintegrates recycling into art\u201d in his multi-media creations. \u00a0He will work with youth to decorate \u201cEarth Barrels\u201d to collect aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and other recyclables at public places and special events.\u00a0
You can support Terra Firma by recycling at home, school, and work. \u00a0For details about what types of paper, plastic and metal items are accepted or to volunteer or to make a tax-deductible donation, call Terra Firma at 719-859-3998 or go to\u00a0www.terrafirmarecycling.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From left to right: Miquel Barrientos (Terra Firma), Rich Columbo (artist), Gil Lucero (Terra Firma), Terry Gordon (Twin Enviro Services), Cathy Lurie (PaintCare), and Jeremey and Kelli Van Matre (Terra Firma). Photo by Paula M. Manini.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Paula M. ManiniTRINIDAD \u2014 Terra Firma Recycling announces new and upcoming projects to expand services and encourage recycling. \u00a0Located two miles from downtown Trinidad, Terra Firma is a regional facility open to everyone. \u00a0From Main Street go west on Arizona Avenue, pass the Masonic Cemetery, and follow signs over…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}