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Friday, 06 April 2012 08:46 |
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 Annual Bulky Waste and Electronics Collection Day for Whitfield County
(Dalton, GA, April 6, 2012) - Community Pride Day during the Great American Cleanup will be on Saturday, April 21 from 8:00 am to 2:00 pm. Community Pride Day facilitates Spring Cleaning by inviting Whitfield county residents to dispose of bulky items and electronics without paying disposal fees at select drop-off locations. The Old Dixie Hwy. Landfill and Convenience Center is the Main Location for this event. Community Locations include three middle schools, Westside Middle School, Eastbrook Middle School, and North Whitfield Middle School.
All four locations will be accepting bulky items for disposal and electronics for recycling. Bulky items include furniture, household equipment, and appliances. Electronics include computers, digital cameras, cell phones, printers, scanners, and laptops. There is a limit of one television accepted per vehicle. Please remember to secure your load for cleaner roads. Tie down and put a tarp on items placed in the back of a pick-up truck or trailer.
The Old Dixie Landfill and Convenience Center is the only location accepting Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) that includes household pesticides, pool chemicals, varnish and latex paints. For a complete list of HHW please visit www.DWSWA.org or call 706-277-2545.
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Last Updated on Friday, 06 April 2012 09:05 |
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Thursday, 22 March 2012 11:44 |
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 (Dalton, GA, March 22, 2012) - The City of Dalton Curbside Recycling Program was recognized for it’s 2011 recycling efforts on March 19 at 6:00 pm at Dalton City Hall during the regularly scheduled City Council Meeting. Representatives from the City Council and the City of Dalton Public Works Department were present for the presentation organized by the Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority’s Recycling Center.
In 2011 residents participating in the Curbside Recycling program collected 2,532,120 lbs. of recyclables, a 14% increase over recycling in 2010 when 2,175,820 lbs was collected. Participation in the Curbside Recycling program during 2011 saved 2,110 cubic yards of landfill space. If only one type of recyclable had been collected, it would be the weight equivalent of 86,627,437 aluminum drink cans (empty 12 oz.) or 16,880,800 cereal boxes. Recycling 1,266 tons also saved enough energy to power 89 households for a year.
For more information about recycling call 706-278-5001 or visit www.DWSWA.org.
Photo Info.: The City of Dalton Curbside Recycling program was recognized for recycling 2,532,120 lbs. in 2011. Pictured are Norman Barashick, Executive Director, Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority, Benny Dunn, Executive Director, City of Dalton Public Works, Recycling Ben, mascot and recycling representative, Denise Wood, City of Dalton Councilwoman, Jimmy Step, Curbside Recycling Driver, David Pennington, City of Dalton Mayor. |
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Friday, 09 March 2012 10:51 |
New Hope Middle School Takes 5th at the State Level
 (Dalton, GA, March 9, 2012) – Keep America Beautiful, Inc., the nation’s largest volunteer-based community action and education organization, has announced the winners of “Recycle-Bowl”, the first comprehensive nationwide recycling competition for elementary-, middle- and high-school students. 45 schools in Georgia participated at the state level recycling as much as possible during the weeks of October 17, 2011 to November 12, 2011. Several local schools placed in the Top 10 in Georgia, including New Hope Middle School, which placed 5th in the state.
Public and private schools in Whitfield County currently participate in Target Recycling at School, a free recycling collection service offered by the Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority. With the assistance of the DWSWA’s recycling center, 35 local schools were registered for the inaugural competition. Each school received a kit to help promote recycling in their school. At the end of the competition period the weights of the recyclables collected at each school were reported to Recycle-Bowl staff.
Georgia’s Top 10 Recycle-Bowl Competitors:
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Last Updated on Friday, 09 March 2012 11:08 |
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