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On Saturday, May 12th, the 9th District will host a FREE Spring shredding, e-recycling, and shoe donation event from 9:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. in the lower parking lot of the Mellwood Arts Center, located at 1860 Mellwood Avenue, across from Mom’s Music. This will be a DRIVE-THRU event. Volunteers are needed to help direct traffic and unload vehicles during the event. To sign-up to volunteer please contact our office at 574-1109. Read more about the event and accepted items. |
Acceptable donation items are:
Shredding by Shred-It: Bring personal and confidential documents you no longer need to be shredded and then recycled.
E-Recycling by Eco-Cell: Acceptable items include handheld electronics from lap-tops and smaller.
Shoe Donation by EDGE Outreach: Keep used shoes out of landfills and raise money for water projects. Any type of shoes can be donated regardless of their condition as long as the top part of the shoe is still attached to the sole. Pair the shoes together by tying the laces or with string or rubber bands.
Increase your recycling capacity by joining the 250 households and over 100 businesses in the 9th District that have ordered large recycling carts. For a one-time fee of $50 or $55 per cart 9th District residents and businesses in the Urban Services District can purchase large 95-gallon recycling carts that are picked up once a week. |
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Call 574-1109 or contact Katie Holmes to receive an order form. Learn more about the expanded recycling program. We are hoping that this program will soon expand to other districts, and the more participation we can show in our neighborhoods increases the chances of its expansion.
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Are you looking for a way to get involved in greening our community? Join a Green Triangle Goal Team. We are currently recruiting volunteers who live or work in the 9th District for the Waste/Recycling Team and the Network Team. Both teams meet once a month, from 6:00-7:30pm on the second Thursday. Click here to learn more. |
The Waste/Recycling Team is starting its work by focusing on education on and increasing participation in the following topics: curbside recycling and electronics and battery recycling. The Network Team is working to build community and increase sustainability through human interaction and the Green Triangle website. If you’d like more information or would like to join either team, please contact Katie Holmes.
When you create a profile on the Green Triangle website, we work behind the scenes to calculate the total impact of the green steps that 9th District residents, businesses, and groups are taking. The preliminary numbers are exciting. Even with 18 respondents, we can already see a concrete difference from the actions we are taking: |
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-Respondents walk or bike a total of 147 miles a week instead of driving. This saves 369 gallons of gas per year, which saves the release of 7232 pounds of Carbon Dioxide per year.
-58 flushes are reported as saved each day. This is a total of 93 gallons of water saved per day, or 33,945 gallons of water saved per year.
The community map is also filling up with rain barrels, vegetable gardens, compost piles, and more. View the map and find out about sustainability work your neighbors are involved in. Create your profile and track your progress today.
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The Green Triangle is partnering with Eco-Cell, a local business in the 9th District, to recycle handheld electronics to benefit the Green Triangle. For each item donated, materials will be kept out of the landfill and the Green Triangle will receive funds to make our community more sustainable. You may drop off electronics for recycling at the following locations:
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Eco-Cell, 1726 Mellwood Avenue,
Red Hot Roasters at 1403 Lexington Road, where you can drop off items while getting your coffee in the drive-thru.
Other drop off locations in the 9th District will be announced. If your business would like to serve as a drop off location, please email Katie Holmes. Click here to learn more, see a map of drop off locations, and see a list of all accepted items.
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The Billy Goat Hill Garden Tree Canopy Committee invites the public to attend a meeting on May 10th at 6:00 pm at the Clifton Center, 2117 Payne Street, to provide valuable feedback during the design process. The goal of the Street Tree Master Plan is to replant street trees along Frankfort Avenue in Clifton from Mellwood Ave. to Ewing Ave. |
The plan will focus solely on tree selection and placement. It will not address sidewalk replacement, street furniture or lighting. Charles Cash and Kristin Booker from Urban 1 LLC will present the preliminary design plans. For additional information you may contract: Lorene Hunter, BGHG Tree Canopy Committee Chair, lorene@iglou.com.
Go beyond curbside recycling. There are many items that cannot go in curbside recycling and should not go into the landfill. Other items can be reused instead of being thrown away. Find a list of local sites that accept these items. Some examples include plastic bags, packing materials, all types of metal, electronics, and paint. If you know of other places in the 9th District to recycle or repurpose other items, contact Katie Holmes to add this information to the list.
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If your business has packing materials that you need to reuse, visit this link to see where you can do so. If your business would like to receive packing materials to be reused, please contact Katie Holmes to be added to this list.
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