Recycle Your Life is Back!

Local Baptist Church plans second annual community wide recycling day

The second annual mega-recycling event at First Baptist Church of Decatur (FBCD) will be held May 21, 2011. Recycle Your Life, a mission project of the FBCD EcoCare Mission Team is a community wide recycling event that held in First Baptist Church of Decatur’s parking lot at 308 Clairemont Avenue..

The event runs from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. When the EcoCare Mission team says Recycle Your Life, they mean recycle most everything in your life:  electronics, cell phones, all working household appliances, household goods, clothing, shoes, onsite paper shredding and furniture. To see a complete listing of acceptable items please see the list below. (Please note: some items are too hazardous to pick up and no items collected by local government curbside recycling will be accepted.) Two new additions this year include paint and toilets. Toilets are to support the reinstated DeKalb Toilet Rebate program. Citizens may bring cleaned toilets with all the interior mechanisms removed. “Many people do not realize that construction debris fill up to 40% of our landfills.” stated Beth Bond, EcoCare Mission team leader. “So it was important to not only to support DeKalb County but also divert the toilets from the landfills.”

Although the goal is to offer as much as possible for free disposal, the paint, shredding and some electronic items will have disposal fees. The paint will have a disposal fee of $1.00 per can regardless of paint can size. Televisions will have a $10.00 fee.

Last year over 11,000 pounds of electronics, a truck and half of items and over 300 cars were served. The goal is to help folks de-clutter and recycle useful items and not so useful items in a responsible manner.

Organizations who will benefit include but are not limited to: DeKalb Habitat for Humanity, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, multiple local clothing closets, FBCD Prayers & Squares, FBCD Youth Group, FBCD Library, Rebounce, and the Salvation Army.

To get a full listing of all items and non-accepted items please visit www.fbcdeatur.com. To see the flier click here.