With a weekend forecast including sun shine, community leaders are hoping residents will take the opportunity to make the area sparkle with cleanliness.
The Keep Greenville Beautiful committee has rescheduled Greenville’s annual Clean Up Day for Saturday, April 27 after the April 6 date brought dreary weather.
This event, which will be held from 8 a.m. to noon, is a friendly competition between the city’s six wards where the winner will be recognized at the May city council meeting and at the clean-up celebration.
According to information from Keep Greenville Beautiful, citizens may go to their ward stations and pick up supplies. All bags of litter must be returned to ward stations by noon. Participants should return forms to ward chairs, who should be contacted to discuss an area for groups to clean. Gloves and trash bags may be picked up at any time beginning at 8 a.m. on Clean Up Day at the ward’s designated dumpster site. Return filled bags to the designated ward site before noon on Clean Up Day.
For paper and cardboard recycling, KGB encourages all citizens to place paper items (newspapers, magazines and cardboard) in green bins located on Fairground Road behind Ward’s Recreation Center and Farmer’s Market. Place cardboard in the green bin on Bing’s lot marked cardboard only.
On the clean-up day, a place will be provided for residents to bring household hazardous waste and electronics.
Ward locations are:
Ward 1, Hardy Park.
Ward 2, Fire Station - 2337 E. Alexander
Ward 3, Fire Station - 2352 S. Main Extended
Ward 4, Fire Station - 532 Central Street
Ward 5, Fire Station - 1357 E. Reed Road
Ward 6, T.L. Weston School
A clean-up celebration will be held at Hardy Park from noon to 3 p.m.
About Keep Greenville Beautiful
Keep Greenville Beautiful is one of the oldest beautification committees in the city. It was organized Jan. 15, 1991. The committee serves under the umbrella of Keep America and Keep Mississippi Beautiful. The purpose of this committee is to coordinate, promote, support, encourage and advance efforts to the community to improve quality of life as it relates to beautification, the reduction of litter and recycling.
Household Hazardous Waste Day
The Washington County Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event has been rescheduled for Saturday, April 27, from 8 a.m. until noon at the Greenville City Shop on 502 Mill Rd. This free event is sponsored by the Washington County Board of Supervisors and will be held rain or shine.
The event is funded in part by a Solid Waste Assistance Grant from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, which supervisors applied for and were awarded.
Washington County residents may bring household hazardous waste they have at their homes to the event. The household hazardous waste will be disposed of properly by a licensed and certified environmental and remediation company.
Household hazardous wastes are any unused or leftover portions of household products containing toxic chemicals. Any product, which is labeled CAUTION, POISONIOUS, TOXIC, FLAMABLE, or CORROSIVE, is considered a Household Hazardous Waste, and includes aerosols, all-purpose cleaners, ammonia, anti-freeze, automobile cleaners, batteries, brake fluid, charcoal, lighter fluid, chlorine bleach, detergents, disinfectants, drain opener, furniture polish, gasoline, glass cleaner, herbicides, insecticides, mothballs, motor oil, oven cleaner, paint, paint thinner, pesticides, pool chemicals, rodent poisons, rubber cement, rug & upholstery cleaner, scouring powder, silver polish, snail and slug killers, toilet bowl cleaner, transmission fluid, tub & tile cleaner, turpentine, varnish, water seal and wood finish.
Residents are asked not to bring explosive or radioactive materials, PCB’s, medical waste, syringes, and waste from any business or compressed cylinders.
It is important that residents leave the waste in the original container and make sure that the container is sealed so it will not leak, and to transport containers in the trunk of the car or in the back of the vehicle, away from passengers.
Residents are asked to enter the City Shop location (off Highway 82) where they see the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Tent/Signs and remain in their vehicles.
Please do not bring tires to this event. Waste tires can be dropped off at the Waste Tire Collection Site at the Washington County Road Department Shop on Raceway Road in Greenville from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m., Monday through Friday.
For more information call Shelly Johnstone at 662-419-0161.
