DWSWA convenience centers will be having delayed openings on March 12, 2022 until 9:00 a.m. due to winter weather conditions. Call ahead at 706-277-2545 with any inquiries after 9:00 a.m.. Thank you.
Locations include the Old Dixie Landfill & Convenience Center, McGaughey Chapel Convenience Center in Cohutta, Westside Convenience Center in Rocky Face, and the M.L. King Blvd. Convenience Center in Dalton.
DWSWA convenience centers will be having delayed openings on January 17, 2022 until 10:00 a.m. due to winter weather conditions. Call ahead at 706-277-2545 with any inquiries after 10:00 a.m.. Thank you.
Locations include the Old Dixie Landfill & Convenience Center, McGaughey Chapel Convenience Center in Cohutta, Westside Convenience Center in Rocky Face, and the M.L. King Blvd. Convenience Center in Dalton.
People were decking the halls and stringing the lights as soon as the turkey leftovers were put away this year! If you are decorating for Christmas and plan to use a live tree, make sure you have a plan for after the holiday! Save the date for Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful’s Annual Bring One for the Chipper Event. Over the years, this event has recycled hundreds of live Christmas trees and multiple tons of electronics.
Recycle your live, natural, undecorated Christmas tree after the holiday season and your used electronic devices at The Home Depot on 875 Shugart road on Saturday, January 8, 2022. From 9:00 am to 12:00 pm volunteers will be on site to collect your natural trees and electronics for recycling.
We will also be collecting flattened cardboard boxes as we did last year for the first time! If you have big cardboard boxes that won’t fit in your curbside bin, flatten them out and bring them along!
There is NO charge for trees and most electronics. The only fee is a $10.00 fee for CRT, or Cathode Ray Tube, television sets and computer monitors. Typical CRT TVs have four to eight pounds of lead in them requiring them to have extra-special handling when they are being recycled and results in a higher cost.
Please remove all ornaments and the base from your trees. Electronics will be sent to a third-party recycler. Volunteers will not be removing any data from your devices before sending them onto recycling. Please make sure you wipe the data from laptops, phones, etc. before dropping off.
Participant have their pick of seed packets while supplies last and will remain in their car to help the event remain safe in 2020.
Volunteers from Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful and the Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority help a resident unload their tree for recycling.
Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful established their beautification grants in honor of National Planting Day which is celebrated through the end of November. Businesses across Whitfield County and the City of Dalton were invited to apply for funding to implement a project related to beautifying the community. Each project aims to improve the visual aspects of the facility or adjoining streetscape. Beautification grants range from a minimum of $100 to a maximum of $500.
Past beautification grants from Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful have been used to create native plant gardens and wildlife sanctuaries.
This year the following business and projects were awarded a grant from Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful.
Projects will be completed by March 1, 2022 and each recipient will submit a project summary by March 18, 2022 to showcase their work. Visit Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful’s website www.KeepDaltonWhitfieldBeautiful.org or follow them on Facebook to get updates on the progress of these projects.
National Planting Day is celebrated annually by Keep America Beautiful in the fall as an opportunity to encourage volunteers to plant native species restoring ecological balance to the environment while creating greener, more beautiful communities. Learn more about this event at www.kab.org.Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful is pleased to announce the recipients of their first Business Beautification Micro-Grants for 2021. Keep Dalton-Whitfield Beautiful established their beautification grants in honor of National Planting Day which is celebrated through the end of November. Businesses across Whitfield County and the City of Dalton were invited to apply for funding to implement a project related to beautifying the community. Each project aims to improve the visual aspects of the facility or adjoining streetscape. Beautification grants range from a minimum of $100 to a maximum of $500.
The Dalton-Whitfield Solid Waste Authority has announced the holiday hours of operation for its four facilities in Whitfield County. Locations include the Old Dixie Hwy. Landfill & Convenience Center, McGaughey Chapel Convenience Center in Cohutta, Westside Convenience Center in Rocky Face, and the M.L. King Convenience Center in Dalton.
All locations will be closed on Friday, December 24th and Saturday, December 25th in observance of Christmas and re-open on Monday, December 27th regular hours. Locations will be closed on Saturday, January 1, 2022 in observance of New Year’s Day, and re-open on Monday, January 3, 2022 regular hours.
For more information call 706-277-2545 or visit www.DWSWA.org.
