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BALTIMORE CITY DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS ReNews | APRIL 2018
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The Mayor’s
Spring Cleanup is just around the corner! The Baltimore City Department of
Public Works (DPW) is excited to team up with the Departments of Transportation
and Recreation and Parks for the 19th annual Mayor’s Spring Cleanup.
This year’s cleanup will take place on Saturday, April 28, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Residents can sign up by calling 311 and providing their cleanup location and
anticipated number of volunteers. Participants are eligible to receive credits
towards their stormwater fee; certificates and forms can be picked up when collecting
bags for the cleanup. More than 80 groups have already signed up, including
groups from Ridgely's Delight, Brewer’s Hill, Rosemont, Coldstream Homestead-Montebello,
and Remington.
In honor
of Earth Day, DPW is hosting a recycling trifecta: free document shredding, a
plastic bag takeback, and a recycling bin sale! These Earth Day activities will take place
Saturday, April 21 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Morgan State University
in the Fine Arts parking lot, 2201 Argonne Drive.
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City residents can bring up to two 32-gallon bags of documents to be shredded on site and recycled. This is a good time to shred sensitive documents — credit card information, medical records, cancelled checks, and pay stubs. Bags with other trash will not be accepted. |
Residents who bring five or more plastic shopping bags will be able to exchange them for a reusable bag (limit one per resident). Switching to reusable bags reduces the amount of waste that we create. One reusable bag is able to replace up to 700 disposable bags in its lifetime. |
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Recycling bins will be on sale: 18-gallon bins ($4) and 25-gallon bins ($7), and lids for the 25-gallon ($3). These yellow recycling bins are NOT required to recycle in the City; feel free to use old trashcans, paper bags, cardboard boxes, or any marked container that is NOT a plastic bag. |
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Clean Your
Files Day is returning this year! In honor
of Earth Day, DPW invites City agencies, businesses, and Baltimore-area
nonprofits to participate. Recycling will be collected for free from
registered locations. Collection is not limited to paper; all recyclable
materials will be accepted (see the Baltimore City Recycling Guide). Clean Your Files Day will take place
Monday, April 23; locations should sign up by Monday, April 16.
Sign up by
calling the DPW Recycling Office, (410) 396-4511, or emailing Erin Klamic, Erin.Klamic@baltimorecity.gov.
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Household Hazardous
Waste (HHW) collection season makes its return Friday, April 6, and Saturday,
April 7. HHW collection days are generally
the first consecutive Friday and Saturday of each month, April through October.
Collections are held at the Northwest Citizens’ Convenience Center, 2840 Sisson
St. Examples of accepted materials include old batteries, oil based paint, and
pesticides. For a complete list of accepted and unaccepted materials, please visit our website. |
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GROW Centers (Green Resources & Outreach for Watersheds) are your greening resource hubs. During the months of April and May, GROW Centers will pop up in Baltimore City. These events feature mulch giveaways, green products for free/sale, and free workshops on topics including rain barrels, tree planting, and gardening. Advance registration is encouraged: http://baltimoregrowcenter.eventbrite.com/.
The GROW Centers will pop up in Baltimore on four Saturdays:
April 14 (1515-1557 McKean Ave.) 10 AM-12 PM
April 21 (1224 Wicomico St.) 10 AM- 2PM
April 28 (400 Block of N. Duncan St.) 10 AM- 2PM
May 5 (5011 Arbutus Ave.) 10 AM- 2PM
MORE INFORMATION
What is grasscycling?
Leaving chopped grass clippings on a mowed lawn as fertilizer
What are the benefits of grasscycling?
- Protects waterways by slowing runoff from rain and melting snow
- Protects and nourishes lawn, allowing it to grow thicker and healthier without the use of commercial fertilizer
- Saves you time and effort to bag, empty, and dispose of clippings
How do you grasscycle?
- Set mower blade height to 3”
- Cut lawn before grass reaches 4” high
- Let grass clippings fall and stay on the lawn
- Mow at least once a week during peak growing season
- Mow only when grass is dry, wet grass clumps can clog your lawnmower.
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You can use anything to hold your recyclables---just no plastic bags! If you use plastic bags to collect your recyclables, please be sure to empty the contents into a bin, paper bag, cardboard box, or other marked container before setting it out for collection. Find where to recycle plastic bags. In addition, please keep recycle bins free of clothing, shoes, garden hoses, wood, plastic toys, and any other plastics that are not labeled #1-7.
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