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 Memorial Day, May 27, 2013: No County-provided recycling or trash collections on May 27; all pickups this week slide by one day. Transfer Station closed May 27. Shred your confidential documents at our Community Paper Shredding event - June 8 (Rockville) |
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Wednesday, November 24, 20102010 Silver Spring Thanksgiving ParadeOur staff and volunteers -- and Rocco the Recycling Retriever! -- participated in the 2010 Silver Spring Thanksgiving Parade. Here are some of our parade photos.If the slide show doesn't appear, visit the direct link to our Flickr photo set. Happy Thanksgiving! -- posted by Susanne Saturday, November 14, 2009Lots of shredding (and donating) going on!Our celebration of America Recycles Day is in full swing this weekend! We had two paper shredding and household donation events today. If you missed them, we've got two more for you tomorrow in Bethesda and Silver Spring.
Here are a few images from today's event in Germantown. The weather was overcast -- and thankfully, precipation was limited to the occasional light drizzle. Our staff and volunteers were in great spirits as they greeted event participants, with a friendly competition between sites to see which one had the most number of cars, paper shredded, and donations received!  A steady stream of cars came through (thank you all for coming out!). With many hands on deck for unloading, there was essentially no wait time. Participants were in and out in minutes.
 Volunteers welcomed participants, handed out information, and answered questions about recycling.
 Donations rolled in a trunkload at a time, with the collective results filling up the truck.
 If you miss this weekend's events, remember that we accept paper you shred at home yourself in our weekly mixed paper recycling collection. (Please bundle the shreds -- that prevents them from blowing out of your container as they await collection, and as crews empty your container.) Your donations are welcomed year-round by local charities and organizations; consult our Use It Again Guide at Use It Again Guide for suggestions, if you don't already have a favorite donation spot.
--posted by Susanne
Friday, November 06, 2009Community Service Day RecapOn October 24, residents at Manchester Manor Apartments, Tanglewood Apartments, and Sligo Hills Apartments in Silver Spring were treated to on-site paper shredding/recycling and the opportunity to donate clothing and household goods to families in need.Montgomery County collaborated with Office Paper Systems, A Wider Circle, and the Housing Opportunities Commission to provide these services in the parking areas of these properties. Montgomery County volunteers and staff also went door-to-door, placing apartment-sized recycling bins and recycling information at the door of every apartment, and replaced the labels and posters at the collection areas to raise resident recycling awareness. This event was part of the countywide Community Service Day, a day of volunteering to encourage the spirit of giving among county residents. From the November 2009 issue of our TRRAC Newsletter for multi-family properties.
CATEGORIES: Apartments/Condo Recycling (TRRAC) , Recycling , Reuse , Volunteers
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Monday, August 24, 2009Impressions from the County FairThe Montgomery County Agricultural Fair ended on Saturday, and we've packed our tents, tables, and supplies up for the next event. Here's a short retrospective of our nine days there. The sign taped to the bus next to our booth was one you don't see every day: “Path MUST be kept cleared – cakes coming thru!” On the Fair's opening Friday, easy passage to the Home Arts Building across the way from us was critical for bakers bearing entries for the cake competition! (Did you have a chance to check out the winners? They looked scrumptious!)
Our recycling tatoos, with a reminder to "Recycle Every Day!", were popular with the younger set. Our teen volunteers enthusiastically offered their application services for on-the-spot tatooing!
Our display of things we accept in our curbside recycling program was a great conversation starter! Thanks for the interesting chats we had about what to put into your blue bins, and... what to keep out. (And about that child's hand holding a yo-yo string... It's a bonus addition to this photo, but a nice opportunity to note that the yo-yos we gave out as prizes were made from recycled content!)
Here's Ana, our tireless Recycling Volunteer Program Manager, who kept track of our staff and volunteer schedule to make sure that our booth was attended at all times, replenished supplies as we ran out, and cheerfully boosted spirits on those hot, humid afternoons.
If you missed us at the Fair, maybe we'll cross paths at one of our upcoming Fall events. Our staff and volunteers look forward to meeting you! -- posted by Susanne
Friday, May 22, 2009Recycling Awareness Week: Special recycling achievements honored
We were happy to honor our special recyclers with... an award made in the United States (Colorado, to be exact) from recycled glass. Meet our honorees for Excellence in Recycling, Outstanding Achievement, and Outstanding Achievement (Individual) at multi-family and business properties, and from our Recycling Volunteer corps. Congratulations to all! --posted by Susanne
CATEGORIES: Apartments/Condo Recycling (TRRAC) , Business recycling (SORRT) , News , Volunteers
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Monday, April 27, 2009Thanks for making our Earth Day Celebration a big success!Were you able to join us for our Earth Day Celebration on Saturday? If you were, thanks for coming out - you helped us set a new attendance record! If not, perhaps we'll see you next year. A big round of applause and thanks to the many Recycling Volunteers who helped us at this event! We are so grateful to you all! Some snapshots of the day...
-- posted by Susanne Friday, January 30, 2009Our Winter 2009 Recycletter is available
This issue's contents include:
For details, I'll purposely refer you to the Recycletter itself! --posted by Susanne Friday, August 15, 2008Visit us at the Comcast Film FestivalTomorrow, we're wrapping up our tent and displays at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair. Tonight, we begin our evenings at the Comcast Outdoor Film Festival! We look forward to meeting you at our booth there. As with the County Fair, we have lots of information about all of our recycling programs to share with you at the Film Festival. And, we would be happy to chat with you about our expanded plastics recycling program. So, catch a free movie, enjoy dinner, and... get your recycling questions answered!
Friday, May 23, 2008Recycling Awareness Week - awards given for special achievementAt yesterday's Recycling Achievement Awards Recognition Program, we celebrated recycling efforts in these categories:
Congratulations to all for helping to promote recycling in Montgomery County!
CATEGORIES: Apartments/Condo Recycling (TRRAC) , Business recycling (SORRT) , News , Recycling , Volunteers
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Sunday, April 27, 2008And the winner of our Scrap Metal Recycling Challenge is...The winner of our Scrap Metal Recycling Challenge is the Cabin John community! Cabin John residents recycled 20,284 pounds of scrap metal over the 7-week period from March 1 through April 18, 2008. Congratulations also go to the residents of Carderock Springs, who recycled 13,478 pounds of scrap metal during the Challenge. The Challenge award, a clock made of reused and recycled metal parts, was given by Eileen Kao, Chief of our Waste Reduction and Recycling Section.
Saturday, April 26, 2008Thanks for celebrating Earth Day with us
What a warm and sunny day it was for our Earth Day Celebration! While the advance weather forecast included rain, those drops didn't fall until long after our event was over. (Whew!) Thank you to the hundreds of you who came out and joined us. We are so grateful to our many event volunteers - a good number of whom were teens earning Student Service Learning hours - for your assistance throughout the day.
Friday, April 04, 2008Earth Day Celebration updateOur Earth Day Celebration organizers are hard at work, and the April 26 event promises to be a grand one! We look forward to seeing you there! As I mentioned yesterday, we'll have an electronics recycling collection at this Celebration. Do you have confidential papers which you'd like to have shredded? Bring a bag with you -- we'll have a collection point for off-site shredding by The Arc of Montgomery County. (Limit: one bag per person) Download our Earth Day flyer (designed by one of our volunteers - thanks so much, E.!)
Friday, March 14, 2008Scrap Metal Recycling Challenge UpdateScrap metal items of all shapes and sizes are coming in to the Scrap Metal Recycling Challenge! Here are some of the items we saw on our site visits this week: They have ranged from the more common...
to the fancier... and even the ornate...
Remember, this Challenge is a special project accepting a wider range of smaller metal items than we typically collect. Our curbside scrap metal recycling program, available to residents with Montgomery County-provided recycling collection, is for large metal items only.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008Our Spring Recycletter is available
This issue's contents include:
For details, I'll purposely refer you to the Recycletter itself!
Friday, February 29, 2008Scrap Metal Recycling Challenge begins March 1, 2008
Starting March 1, the communities of Cabin John and Carderock Springs will compete by... recycling scrap metal! The Scrap Metal Recycling Challenge will run for seven weeks, from March 1 through April 18, 2008. The Challenge will be supported by more than 120 volunteers. We trained them this week, and they are ready to recycle lots of scrap metal! We'll measure each community's progress by weighing the metal collected from its residents. At the end of the Challenge, we'll compare the weights, and announce the winner. Don't live in Cabin John or Carderock Springs? We provide curbside scrap metal recycling for your large metal items at no charge. And, we accept both large and small metal items for recycling when you bring them to the Scrap Metal area at our Solid Waste Transfer Station. Friday, December 21, 2007Our Winter 2007 Recycletter is available
Interested in joining the Recycling Volunteer Program? Mark your calendars now to save the date for one of these upcoming training sessions:
We invite all volunteer - new and current - to an advanced training session on Thursday, April 3, 2008, 6 pm to 8 pm. For registration details, I'll purposely refer you to the Recycletter itself! Thursday, November 15, 2007Celebrate America Recycles Day with us!Today is America Recycles Day! It's a day for recognizing the importance of recycling and buying products made with recycled materials.
Date and time: Location: Wednesday, September 19, 2007Our Recycling Program Volunteers extend our message to you in our community Wow! A month has already flown by since 47 of our Recycling Volunteers and many of our staff members shared waste reduction, recycling, composting, and trash information with visitors to the annual Montgomery County Agricultural Fair. Their efforts allowed us to talk to about 4,900 Fair visitors!To our Recycling Volunteers: thank you! Spring and fall are always particularly busy times for our Recycling Volunteer Program. We try to attend as many of your community fairs, festivals, and other special events as possible. Our activity calendar for the coming weeks is no exception!  Check our activity calendar; if you see us at an event you attend, please say "hello!"Our volunteer opportunities include events like the Fair, serving as Block Captains, helping our office, and more. We offer periodic trainings. And, our youth activities are approved for Student Service Learning. We'd love to chat with you to explore our options together. More information about our Recycling Volunteer Program Sunday, July 15, 2007Share your enthusiasm for recycling in our Recycling Volunteer ProgramResidents in the metropolitian Washington, DC, area volunteer in greater numbers and contribute more hours than the national average. That's according to a new report on volunteer habits, published by the Corporation for National and Community Service last week.If you are interested in exploring -- or expanding -- your own volunteer activities, consider our Recycling Volunteer Program! We offer a variety of volunteer opportunities throughout the year, many on weekends. These include positions for students and adults. To learn more about our Recycling Volunteer Program, contact Ana Arriaza through our website or at 240-777-6445. Our next volunteer training is Saturday, July 21, 2007, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Rockville. We'll feature more information about our volunteers and their contributions to us and our community in future blog entries! |
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