Garbage Gurus in Summit County, Colorado

08/24/2026

This little guy has been part of our family since appx. 2 yrs ago. We named her Marshmallow. She was bullied and tortured likely by parakeets with her previous owner. She was taken away by police and into our Summit shelter.

All we do is clean her and feed her. She can't really fly. She trips on her wings. She seems content in her own space these days.

PLEASE Consider adopting for these critters had no choice but to be human dependents!

Marshmallow is cute and easy.
HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!

08/08/2026

Recycling DOs and DON'Ts says Oregon but will show Colorado. 🥳

07/27/2026

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07/27/2026

07/27/2026

That 0.125% concentration is not a typo. It is barely anything — and it is enough to end an entire population of soil worms before sunrise. The compound responsible is called alpha-terthienyl, a sulfur-based molecule that marigold roots quietly push into the surrounding soil. It does not wait to be eaten. It absorbs directly through the worm's outer layer and triggers what amounts to an internal fire — a sudden flood of reactive oxygen that the nematode has no way to shut down. The whole process takes less than 24 hours. What makes this even stranger is the scale at work underground. A single marigold plant can treat the soil in a radius around its roots, creating a kind of invisible perimeter. Farmers have used marigolds as companion plants for generations, long before anyone understood the chemistry. They just knew the crops nearby did better. Now science has a name for what those roots were doing the whole time. Nature wrote the formula first. Humans just finally learned to read it. [UCSAY]

07/27/2026

Residents are reminded to check and remove batteries from toys, gadgets and other electrical items...

07/26/2026

Styrofoam is used without our permission, then we single throw! What to do?

Can you recycle Styrofoam? Find places locally to recycle your Styrofoam, plus ideas for reducing your foam use.