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Citizens Join Together in Great American Cleanup
Gwinnett County, GA – Now the winter chill is gone and spring has finally sprung it’s time for Gwinnettians to join millions of Americans in Keep America Beautiful’s Great American Cleanup. Now in its 22nd year, the Great American Cleanup is the nation’s largest annual community improvement program. More than 30,000 events are being planned across the country and Gwinnett’s own Keep America Beautiful affiliate, Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful, is leading the charge in our community.
From April 18th through May 31st Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful will host various community events, volunteer opportunities, and educational programs that will focus on preventing litter, reducing waste and beautifying our community. The big community kick-off themed “Green Starts Here” will take place on Saturday, April 18th with the grand reopening of the Recycling Bank of Gwinnett. The Recycling Bank of Gwinnett, located at 4300 Satellite Boulevard in Duluth, burned to the ground in June of 2008 but will reopen bigger and better to serve as our community’s one-stop mega recycling center. From 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. all citizens are encouraged to come out and enjoy tours, giveaways, educational activities, and most importantly – to recycle!. This is a great time to load up all of those items cluttering up your garages, basements and sheds and take care of your spring cleaning.
The new Recycling Bank of Gwinnett offers citizens the ability to recycle 35 different types of materials. The full list of items that can now be recycled includes:
Newspapers & Inserts School Papers
Cardboard Boxes Kraft Paper
Soda & Beer Cartons Cereal Boxes
Paperboard Tissue Boxes
Paper Grocery Bags Shoe Boxes
Paper Shopping/Lunch Bags Pizza Boxes
Magazines Paper Towel Cores
Shopping Catalogues Tissue Paper Cores
Old Phone Directories Aluminum Beverage Containers
Discarded Mail Aluminum Food Containers
Greeting Cards Steel Food Containers & Lids
Envelopes Empty Aerosol Cans
Carbonless Paper Forms Plastic Soda & Water Bottles
Computer Paper Milk Jugs
Calendars Plastic Detergent Bottles
Plastic Bottles #3-7 Glass Bottles & Jars
Aluminum Baking Tins Paperback Books
Clean Metallic Lids Throughout the next 6 weeks Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful invites all Gwinnett citizens to get involved in the Great American Cleanup. Gwinnett activities will include Earth Day activities, Soil Stewardship Week programs, Mother’s Day celebrations, anti-graffiti efforts, clean air initiatives, celebrations for green and healthy schools and more. There’s something for everone.
Matthew McKenna, President
of Keep America Beautiful, Inc., shares, “We are thrilled that Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful continues to lead the environmental charge in Gwinnett. They have been involved with the Great American Cleanup since the beginning and we look to the Gwinnett community each year to set the bar and model environmental stewardship and community improvement for KAB affiliates and fellow Americans across the nation. We can’t wait to see what you can accomplish this year!”
Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful challenges all Gwinnettians to begin at least one community improvement activity this spring for the Great American Cleanup. The job of keeping our communities clean and beautiful is not sustained with a once a year effort. It is on-going and never ending. McKenna says, “With more than 775,000 citizens to engage, the impact Gwinnett could make would be amazing.”
As part of the 2008 Great American Cleanup hardworking volunteers donated more than 6.7 million hours in 2008 to clean, beautify and improve more than 17,000 communities across all 50 states and beyond. Activities included beautifying parks and recreation areas, cleaning seashores and waterways, handling recycling collections, picking up litter, planting trees and flowers, and conducting educational programs and litter-free events.
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