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Community
Calendar
Keep Walton Beautiful meets the first Wednesday of each month at 12:00
noon in the Walton County Recycling Center's Environmental Education room.
Bring your lunch and join us. We encourage you take leadership in positive
activities to improve our communities and join us or become a volunteer.
Your Assistance, Ideas and Suggestions are always welcomed.
Beautification: Year
round landscaping area parks and
public venues.
Big Blue Box: Recycle all household batteries (i.e. 9V, A, AA, AAA,C,D).
Drop off at Recycling Center on Leroy Anderson Rd.
Recycle old cell phones and rechargeable batteries: Look for the green
and brown recycling box at the main Recycling Center on Leroy Anderson
Rd.
March
1 - May 31 ~ Great American Cleanup
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Yearly
Events- call for information
Jan:
Bring one for the Chipper
Feb: Arbor Day Festival
Mar - May: Great American Cleanup
April:
Earth Day
May:
Recycling Round Up
Oct:
Rivers Alive
Nov:
America Recycles Day
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| Social
Circle Friendship Festival
Saturday,
October 1st
Join
us in downtown Social Circle for a fun-filled day. Walk around and
enjoy fun crafts, yummy food, and easy shopping! This event is sure
to be enjoyed by all!
Call
us for more info!
America
Recycles Day
November
15, 2011
Look
for details coming soon!
Since
1997, communities across the country have come together on November 15
to celebrate America Recycles Day. More than a celebration, America Recycles
Day is the only nationally recognized day dedicated to the promotion of
recycling programs in the United States. One day to inform and educate.
One day to get our neighbors, friends and community leaders excited about
what can be accomplished when we all work together. One day to make recycling
bigger and better 365 days a year.
http://www.kab.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ARD_Overview
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Be a part of
the Solution,
not a source of pollution.
Tips
from Keep America Beautiful,
here are 20 suggestions for improving community environments year-round:
- Work
with the local civic groups to identify and eliminate eyesores, and
beautify your local environment.
- Pick
up a piece of litter every day and recycle or dispose
of properly.
- Keep
a litter bag in your car or your recreational vehicle until you get
to a trash receptacle.
- Create
a trash fishing contest in your waterway to increase awareness about
illegal dumping and littering.
- Write
a letter to the editor of your local newspaper asking others to respect
public lands and keep them clean.
- Help
your local schools conduct recycling drives and clean-up projects.
- Create
a beautiful green space by planting trees and shrubs in an area in need
of improvement.
- Ask local
businesses to adopt-a-spot to maintain.
- Paint
and fix up playground equipment.
- Use your canvas bags when shopping.
- Reduce the amount of plastic
containers purchased, buy glass whenever possible.
- Organize
a paint-out with family and friends, and create a community paintbrush
mural over
a wall of illegal graffiti.
- Recycle junk
mail.
- Recycle
your old tires.
- Report
graffiti to your local authorities.
- Donate
your old computer equipment or recycle.
- Conduct
a recycling drive in your neighborhood or your business.
- Volunteer
to help your employer conduct quarterly paper recycling drives at work.
- Donate
gently used clothes to needy organizations and shelters and identify
other items that you can reuse.
- Compost
yard and food waste.
- Find
out how pollution in storm drain runoff can impact our aquifers and
ecosystems, and be passionate about doing your part to reduce
litter and solid waste.
- Ask your
local government officials to establish regular community improvement
activities, and to support and promote volunteer efforts.
- Help
your library establish an environmental corner that offers books and
other educational materials about taking care of the Earth.
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Keep Walton Beautiful & Recycling Center