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Recycle Your Christmas Tree

Recycle Your Christmas Tree

 

Keep Cobb Beautiful is once again sponsoring their annual “Bring One For The Chipper” program for you to recycle your Christmas trees. The average Christmas tree fills up as much landfill space as a washing machine.  Recycled trees are put to good use by making mulch used to beautify local schools, parks and more.  While supplies last, anyone bringing a tree to recycle will receive a free sapling to plant.

 

Cobb County Park sites will accept trees from December 26, 2009 through January 9, 2010.  Home Depot sites will accept tress ONLY on Saturday, January 9, 2010.

 

Locations for free drop-offs:

 

Harrison Park    Fullers Park

Shallowford Road Robinson Road

Marietta 30066     Marietta 30064

 

Sewell Park   Lions Park    

Lower Roswell road Lions Club Drive

Marietta 30066     Mableton 30126

 

Noonday Creek Park    Lost Mountain Park

Hawkins Store Rd         Dallas Highway

Kennesaw 30144 Powder Springs 30127

 

HOME DEPOT:

3605 Sandy Plains Rd, Marietta 30066

4101 Roswell Rd, Marietta 30060

449 Roberts Ct NW, Marietta 30144

1655 Shiloh Rd., Kennesaw 30144

3355 Cobb Parkway, Acworth 30102

1062 Richard D. Sailors Pkwy., Powder Springs 30127

2350 Dallas Hwy, Marietta 300643999 Austell Rd #101, Austell 30106

Spirit of the Green Award

On Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 8:30 A.M. we will be receiving an award from the Georgia Recycling Coalition.  A representative from the Coalition will be here to present the Spirit of the Green Award to us and we will welcome Donna Lowry from 11 Alive News to record this event.  We were one of three schools in the State to receive this award.  The other schools were a private school in Atlanta and an elementary school in Athens.  Our Environmental Committee has worked diligently for twenty years and we are so excited to be recognized in this way.  

Five Tips to Go Green This Thanksgiving

This holiday, make a point to conserve energy and be a Good Neighbor to our planet!

When you take these actions, you’ll help stop global warming.

1. Take one car to grandma’s. Carpool with family members rather than driving to your destination alone. It’s a great way to spend more time with loved ones, save gas, and help the environment!
2. Use reusable dishware. Disposable dishware may sound tempting when planning a large meal, but it all ends up in a landfill. If you prefer disposable dishes, use bio-degradable ones.
3. Turn the thermostat down. With all the body heat being generated by guests and appliances in the kitchen, your home will be much warmer than usual.
4. Compost the waste from your Thanksgiving feast. Compost your organic matter and you’ll help reduce the 5 million additional tons of trash generated between Thanksgiving and New Year’s.
5. Shop local and organic for your meal. The carbon footprint of locally grown food is much smaller because it didn't have to travel around the country or world to get to your dinner table

Keep Cobb Beautiful Electronics Day and Shoe Drive 2009

Saturday, Nov. 14
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Jim R. Miller Park - 2245 Callaway Road Marietta, GA 30008
Piedmont Church - 570 Piedmont Road Marietta, GA 30066

Televisions will be accepted for $10 each.

 

   This year in addition to accepting your electronics, Keep Cobb Beautiful will be partnering with Soles4Souls to collect new or gently worn shoes.

            Please bring your shoes, taped or tied together to the drop off collection boxes.

            Soles4Souls is a Nashville-based charity that collects shoes from the warehouses of footwear companies and the closets of people like you. The charity distributes these shoes free of charge to people in need, regardless of race, religion, class, or any other criteria. Since 2005, Soles4Souls has given away more than 5.5 million pairs of new and gently worn shoes (currently donating one pair every 9 seconds.) The shoes have been distributed to people in more than 125 countries, including

Kenya

,

Thailand

,

Nepal

and the

United States

.

 

Please remember that

Simpson

Middle School

will hold our 3^rd Annual Electronics, Metals and Computer Recycling Day on March 27, 2010 in the Simpson Parking Lot.

 

About Curbside Recycling

So you want to help the environment, do the right thing and start recycling at home. But you are not sure if your local trash hauler is really recycling what they pick up from your curb.

The official Code of Cobb County, under Solid Waste states;

Sec. 102-65. Mandatory offer of recycling service.

(a) All collectors must offer to their residential customers the option of having their recyclable materials collected at least once a month. Recyclable materials to be collected shall include at a minimum the following items: newspaper and aluminum.

(b) All collectors must offer an appropriate container, bags or other type of receptacle for those residential customers opting for this recycling service. Any collector providing such a container, bags or other type of receptacle to any residential customer may charge a fee for such a container, bags or other type of receptacle.

(c) In no event shall any of the recyclable materials collected pursuant to this optional recycling service be disposed of in any landfill.

Be an educated consumer. When shopping for a residential hauler that includes recycling with your waste pick-up, ask these questions.

1. What recyclables do you accept?
The most commonly accepted recyclables are paper, plastic(1-7), aluminum, steel, glass, and cardboard.

2. Do I separate my trash from recyclable materials?
Trash and recyclables need to be separated. There are NO local transfer stations (the place where your hauler takes the collected trash.) that will pull recyclables from residential waste. You will need one waste container and one recyclable container. Most recyclables can be combined into one container, making it easier for you. This is called comingled or single stream recycling.

3. When you put your recyclables out to be picked up, they should be picked up by a separate truck or placed into a compartment on the truck separate from trash.

4. Where are my recyclables taken?
Recyclable materials (paper, plastic, aluminum, steel glass, cardboard) are taken to a MRF (materials recovery facility), where they are separated.

5. What if I witness a hauler dumping trash and recyclables together in the same pick-up? If you see that your hauler is mixing trash and recyclables together there is something you can do about it. This is a

County

Code

violation, and you can call Code Enforcement at 770-528-2125. Remember to have the hauling company name (truck number if possible), location, date and time you saw the violation occur.

Remember, if you don't get the answers you want to hear, shop around! There are many competitive and reliable waste haulers, in service in

Cobb

County

that do offer responsible curbside recycling options. Keep Cobb Beautiful thanks you for your efforts to improve our environment.

Community Outreach to Help Our Pets

Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

In November of 1990, the Simpson Middle School community began to recycle classroom paper.  Mrs. Chanin, one of the School Counselors and the Advisor to the Environmental Committee has kept track of the pounds of paper we have recycled in these 20 years.  As of July 1, 2009, we have recycled 968,338 pounds of paper.  This has saved 8,276 trees from having to be destroyed to produce new paper products.

THIS IS THE YEAR that we will reach recycling ONE MILLION pounds of paper!  Hopefully, by November 2009.  Last school year we recycled 72,422 pounds of paper. 

Please help us to continue to save the Earths resources and to place all your paper for recycling in the bins located at the entrance to our campus.

Reminder... Saturday, March 28, 2009

Simpson Middle School Second Annual Computers, Electronics and Metals Recycling Day:

All Computers, All Electronics and All Metals – come to Simpson Middle School on Saturday, March 28, 2009 from 9:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M. ALL items that fall into any of those three categories can be brought to our parking lot that day to be recycled. There is a processing fee for Computer Monitors of $5.00 and $10.00 for Televisions (not flat screen), due to the costs of recycling these items. All other items can be recycled free of charge; Simpson Middle School’s Environmental Committee does asks for voluntary monetary donations on site. All items need to be brought to the school because the recycling company they use can no longer come to your home to pick up any items. Thank you for your support!

National Wildlife Week March 16-20

Can you feel the excitement? It’s almost here! There’s only 2 weeks left until National Wildlife Week, March 16-20, 2009. Get your students and families excited about something fun and different, and honor wildlife at the same time with this annual event (they’ll love it!).

Starting March 1, visit the National Wildlife Week website at

http://online.nwf.org/site/R?i=osGoyS3fKRMgwmkAKKoaYQ..>www.nwf.org/wildlifeweek  to get your free resources.

Participate in three ways:
    * In a classroom - Download free activity and service project ideas for kids and teens, Wildlife Watch lists of local plants and animals, and take-home activities for families to do together. Even get a discount on our award-winning Access Nature curriculum.
    * With your family and friends - Enjoy the wildlife in your community. Get your family and friends outside to watch for wildlife or participate in a wildlife habitat project.

    * Spread the word - Forward this email to others, including educators and parents, so they can get involved during National Wildlife Week.
     Since 1938, National Wildlife Week has increased awareness about wildlife conservation and the benefits of spending time outdoors. Research shows that a daily hour of (unstructured time outdoors) improves one’s physical, mental and emotional well-being.

 

Eliza Russell
Director of Education
National Wildlife Federation

Grocery bags

Fact:  Continued use of a reusable grocery bag will eliminate the use of 1,000 plastic grocery bags!