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Keep Walton Beautiful & Recycling Center

Phone:  770-267-1421         Fax:  770-267-1423

2051   Leroy  Anderson  Road,  SE,  Monroe,  Ga    30655

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If you would like to volunteer for any upcoming events please call: 770-267-1421 x 5                                                                                                                                                                            

 

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

 

 

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

Rivers Alive 2011

Saturday, October 15th

8am

Nowell Rec. Center

(small gym in back)

Feel free to call our office with questions!

More details to come...

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

 

 

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.