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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: Document Destruction Day
Oct: Rivers Alive
Nov: America Recycles Day
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Events in Detail
March 2012
Social Circle Cleaup will be in downtown Social Circle on Saturday, March 31st. They will have an Arbor Day presentation at 8am at City Hall and breakfast will be provided by Church of The Grove. Also, the Litter Critter will be there! Great service opportunity for citizens of Social Circle!
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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.
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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