Recycling Event Saturday; Home Park Neighborhood Clean Up Next Week

The second Saturday of the month is upon us and that means Keep Atlanta Beautiful’s monthly recycling event will take place in the Old Fourth Ward.

The award winning electronics recycling collection now accepts paper for secure shredding, post consumer polystyrene, popularly known as Styrofoam, and latex paint at the Community Recycling Center located at Walden School, 320 Irwin St,

The event takes place the second Saturday of every month from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There are no residency restrictions and most items are free to drop off.  There is a $10 handling fee per TV. 

Paint Recycling Fees:

1 gal can $3.00
1 qt can $1.50
1 pt can $1.00
5 gal bucket $15.00

The center recycles more than 18,000 pounds per month of obsolete computers, monitors, handheld devices, TVs and more. 

Visit www.KeepAtlantaBeautiful.org for more detailed information on acceptable items and any associated fees. 

There is also a at Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church at 2715 Peachtree Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30305, the first Saturday of every month. 

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The Home Park Community Improvement Association has organized a neighborhood spring cleaning event for Saturday, May 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. 

To participate, meet at at 8:30 a.m. and refreshments will be available at the church throughout the morning.

Please bring your work gloves, wagons, carts, rakes and anything else you think might help you in your efforts to clean up the neighborhood. Heavy duty trash bags will be provided. 

There is a need for a few people to step up and volunteer to be Sector Captains. No special skills needed, just a desire to help beautify the neighborhood, while meeting and volunteering with Home Park residents.

If you have any questions or you want to volunteer to head up a sector, please contact Jim Anderson at 404-259-2660 or jimandersatl@comcast.net.

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A mountain of abandoned tires will soon be a mold hill of usable rubber and fuel for industrial-use, thanks to Atlanta's Tire Amnesty Day held on Saturday, April 28.

The official count shows more than 30,000 tires were collected – the bulk of which were illegally dumped along the city’s right of way, in abandoned lots, along creeks and other environmentally sensitive areas.

“We must do something to address the illegal dumping of tires in our neighborhoods said Atlanta City Councilmember Joyce Sheperd, who spearheaded the collection effort. “This event does just that. Partners from across the city have made this great success happen.”

The event was held in partnership with Liberty Tire Recycling and Keep Atlanta Beautiful and included Council Districts 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, and 12.

The city of Atlanta and other major cities are experiencing a proliferation of litter, waste and scrap tires in their neighborhoods.

The Liberty Tire Recycling, LLC supported the city’s effort by providing seven vehicles and thirteen employees to pickup free of charge and prepare the tires for recycling. 

Most of the tires collected on April 28 will be made into industrial-usable tire derived fuel, which produces the same energy as petroleum and approximately 25 percent more energy than coal; and rubber mulch for playgrounds.

In response to the growing problem of illegally discarded tires in the city, Councilmembers Joyce Sheperd, C.T. Martin and Michael Julian Bond established a commission to studying ways to manage this type of illegal dumping, increase the city’s code enforcement and suggest language to amend the existing City Code.

Since conception, the Tire Commission has been extended from its original time frame of six months and continues to meet monthly. The Tire Commission is scheduled to report final recommendations to the Mayor and the City Council soon.