Community Calender 

If you would like to volunteer for any upcoming events please call: 770-267-1421 x 5                                                                                                                                                                            

Rivers Alive

October  11, 2008

This community project is to clean up our roads and bridges to aide in the prevention of litter from entering our water system

For more information or Volunteers and groups please call 770-267-1421 x 5

or email Elaine Oakes

eoakes@co.walton.ga.us

Community Calender 2008
Keep Walton Beautiful meets the first Tuesday of each month at 12:00 noon in the Walton County Recycling Center's Environmental Education room. We encourage you take leadership in positive activities to improve our communities and join us or become a volunteer. Your Assistance, Ideas and Suggestions are always welcomed.

Beautification:   Year round landscaping area parks

and public venues.

Big Blue Box: Recycle all household batteries (i.e. 9V, A, AA, AAA,C,D).  

Drop off at Recycling Center on Leroy Anderson Rd.

Recycle old cell phones and rechargable batteries: Look for the green and brown recycling box at the main Recycling Center on Leroy Anderson Rd.

March 1 - May 31 ~  Great American Cleanup

Yearly Events
Jan: Bring one for the Chipper
April: Earth Day
Feb: Arbor Day Festival
Mar - May: Great American Cleanup

Oct: Rivers Alive

Nov: America Recycles Day

Tips from Keep America Beautiful, here are 20 suggestions for improving community environments year-round:  

• Work with the local civic groups to identify and eliminate eyesores, and beautify the local environment.
• Pick up a piece of litter every day.
• Keep a litter bag in your car or your recreational vehicle so you dispose of litter properly.
• Create a trash fishing contest in your waterway to increase awareness about illegal dumping and littering.
• Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper asking others to respect public lands and keep them clean.
• Help your local schools conduct recycling drives and clean-up projects.
• Create a beautiful green space by planting trees and shrubs in an area in need of improvement.
• Ask local businesses to adopt-a-spot and take care of it.
• Paint and fix up playground equipment.
• Organize a paint-out with family and friends, and create a community paintbrush mural over a wall of illegal graffiti.
• Recycle your old tires.
• Report graffiti to your local authorities.
• Donate your old computer equipment or dispose of it properly.
• Conduct a recycling drive in your neighborhood or your business.
• Volunteer to help your employer conduct paper recycling drives at work.
• Donate gently used clothes to needy organizations and shelters and identify other items that you can reuse.
• Compost yard and food waste and seek advice if you don't know how.
• Find out how pollution in stormdrain runoff can impact our aquifers and ecosystems, and be passionate about doing your part to reduce litter and solid waste.
• Ask your local government officials to establish regular community improvement activities, and to support and promote volunteer efforts.
• Help your library establish an environmental corner that offers books and other educational materials about taking care of the Earth.