Trash & Recycling
CHCA Clean Up
On Saturday February 6th, neighborhood residents Eduardo Andrade, David Newton, John Drann, John Maynard and 8 members of Emory’s Sigma Nu fraternity (pictured below) took part in cleaning-up the CHCA neighborhood entry on North Superior. The CHCA Board coordinated with residents and the fraternity members in responding to an elderly neighbor’s request with help in cleaning his portion of the property abutting the neighborhood entry.
CANCELLED: "Recycle Your Life" in Decatur Feb. 13
Update 2/12/10 from Beth Bond bethbond@bellsouth.net: It is with a very deeply sad heart that I have decided that the safest, most prudent thing to do is to cancel Recycle Your Life tomorrow. Why cancel vs. postponed? We don't have a "snow" date (who the heck thought we would need one?) and the amount of time it takes to arrange all the moving parts is a good amount of work. We will have another one planned but not until June : )
Christmas Tree recycling through January 10
From KeepGeorgiaBeautiful.org: "Bring One for the Chipper is Georgia's annual Christmas tree recycling program. Each year, Keep Georgia Beautiful works with private sponsors to organize the recycling event. These statewide sponsors included The Home Depot, The Davey Tree Expert Company and WXIA-TV. Numerous local sponsors and volunteers also make contributions and provide in-kind services across the state. The Chipper program involves hundreds of Georgia communities and thousands of volunteers.
DeKalb Recycling and Trash Collection 2010
Attached are copies of the new brochures recently mailed to county residents.
Residential Collection Procedures.
Residential Curbside Recycling Program
2010 Holiday Calendar
No Recycling Pickup Xmas week
According to the following notice from the County, there will be no recycling pickup this Xmas week. No mention is made of New Year week so we assume there will be pick up then.
http://www.co.dekalb.ga.us/sanitation/Getting%20Started/PDF-Files/Recycl...
Keep DeKalb Beautiful Electronics Recycling Event
Location: Avondale Wal Mart
Keep DeKalb Beautiful will offer residents of DeKalb County and metro Atlanta another opportunity to recycle their old electronic items properly and reduce the environmental liability of hazardous material entering DeKalb County’s Seminole Landfill. It’s estimated that there are at least 4.4 million PCs and 8 million Televisions in 3 million households in Georgia. This e-waste will eventually become 334,800 tons of e-waste that will end up in our landfills. Our goal is to promote the recovery, reuse and recycling of obsolete electronic equipment, and to encourage the design, manufacture and purchase of environmentally responsible electronic equipment.
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TO BE ACCEPTED:
Get Paid to Recycle Your Refrigerator or Freezer
From state rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield: If you are a Georgia Power customer and have a working secondary refrigerator you want to recycle, take advantage of Georgia Power's Refrigerator Recycling Program. They will pick up and recycle your second refrigerator or freezer for free and give you $35.
Electronics Recycling @ Walmart
From commissioner Kathie Gannon: Keep DeKalb Beautiful (KDB) will sponsor a recycling drive for unwanted electronic equipment on Saturday, October 31, from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 pm at the Columbia Drive Walmart.
Non-profit seeks used laptops
From state rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield: Step Up In Georgia, a non-profit agency located in Decatur (at 4122 E. Ponce de Leon Ave.) helps teach senior citizens how to become computer proficient. They are in need of gently used laptops for their computer lab. If you have a computer to donate, please contact India Pullin at (404) 580-1903 or indiapullin@yahoo.com.
Keep DeKalb Beautiful Spring Clean Up Day
Dear DeKalb Citizen: Each year Keep DeKalb Beautiful (KDB) participates in Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Clean up initiative as a way of giving our communities a “Fresh Start.” With these difficult economic times, volunteers make the difference in sustaining beautiful, healthy, thriving communities. This April, we ask volunteers to help beautify DeKalb County by cleaning up dirty streets, waterways, and illegal dump sites; as well as by greening up parks, schoolyards, MARTA bus stops and other public spaces. On Saturday, April 18th, 2009, from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m., groups are asked to host community clean ups and beautification projects around the county. [CHCA and MANA plan to participate; details coming later.]
