Keep Athens Beautiful press release
Keep Athens Beautiful (KAB), the City of Athens, and Republic Services and Commodity Recycling Solutions are teaming up once again to sponsor the Annual Spring Cleanup. Each spring, KAB organizes a city-wide cleanup and beautification spree for the community. This year’s event takes place Saturday, April 6, from 8 a.m. to noon. This event is also part of the “Don’t Mess With Texas Trash Off” a campaign of TxDOT.
Volunteers are needed to form “Clean Teams” to comb the streets collects unsightly litter. Anyone can form a clean team by gathering family, neighbors, friends or businesses. Volunteers will receive a free lunch, compliments of Republic Services. KAB will provide the trash bags. For more information and to register your team call KAB at 675-7961.
Republic Services Recycling truck will be at the collection site for you to bring out all your recycling that you have collected since the fall and collecting electronic items for recycling as well. We will also be organising a Roll Off Dumpster to be made available for any other waste, that can’t be recycled, that needs to be disposed of. Other items that we will be collecting are household batteries, cell phones, and E and E Services will be collecting cardboard.
Residents of Athens are encouraged to clean up their yards in preparation for spring. Republic Services and the City of Athens offers free trash and yard waste disposal at the Aaron Street Collection Site. No hazardous materials, oil products, paint products, tires, appliances or construction debris will be accepted. Those in charge of construction sites ought to seek out effective ways of managing their waste materials; implementing industrial steel hoppers, like those from platforms and ladders, could help with this. Verification of Athens residency is required for the KAB program.
For more information about the Annual Keep Athens Beautiful Spring Clean up please call 903-675-7961.