Saturday Is Recycling Day For Jackson County Residents
Keep Jackson County Beautiful is calling on county residents to “join in and become a part of the Great American Cleanup” over the next two weekends.
“The KJCB Board feels it is important for us to get the message out to Jackson Countians that we would like each and every person to take an interest in the world around them,” said KJCB Director Susan Trepagnier. “Our mission is to educate the citizens, both students and adults, about litter and how it happens, why it appears on the sides of our roads and the environment and about recycling.”
KJCB has planned a Clean Out Your Files/E-Recycling/Household Hazardous Waste Day April 12, and on April 19 and asks each Jackson County resident to take a part of their world and clean it up and beautify it.
This Saturday
Keep Jackson County Beautiful will hold its electronics recycling, paper shredding and paint recycling day Saturday, April 12, at the county transfer station.
The annual electronics recycling day will give individuals and businesses a chance to dispose — for free — of myriad electronics from computers and computer components to old cellular telephones.
Old television sets may also be recycled, but there will be a $10 charge per TV. All other items will be taken for free.
Those items should be taken to the county transfer station.
At the same time, businesses and individuals can also take old financial records to be shredded, as a “shredder truck” will also be on hand.
In addition, KJCB will accept up to five cans of paint — acrylic or latex — for recycling, along with household batteries.
“We cannot accept automobile batteries,” Trepagnier points out.
Residents may also bring newspaper and office paper for recycling, along with magazines. Those items can also be dropped at the recycling bins at Lanier Technical Institute, located on South Elm Street in Commerce.
April 19
The following Saturday is the Great American Cleanup, when more than 30 miles of Jackson County roads will be cleaned by groups who participate in the Adopt-A-Road program. But you don’t have to have adopted a road to participate.
Trepagnier said the board, Bill Ives, Harry Bryan, Jack Legg, Beth White, Dave Rosselle, Penni Tench, Dwayne Ansley, Durian Ives, Lisa Grice and Joshua Barnett, doesn’t care if people decide to take a mile of roadway, take the area around their driveway or if they take their whole homeowners group and clean the development, they want to know about it.
“We’d really like them to pick up the phone and register their efforts so we can recognize them with a T-shirt,” she said.
“To the Board of Keep Jackson County Beautiful — that’s what the Great American Cleanup is — a coming together of folks to take pride in their hometown, their county, their church, their school, their environment,” said Board Chairman Bill Ives.
Keep Jackson County Beautiful will supply plastic garbage bags, disposable gloves and a few other goodies, including Great American Cleanup T-shirts, as long as they last, for help with the clean-ups. Call Trepagnier at (706) 708-7198 for more information.
