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SHRED IT DAY!
Angelina
Beautiful/Clean and Security Shredding are kicking off the
“Great American Clean-up by hosting a “SHRED IT DAY” Bring
your unwanted documents to the Lufkin/Angelina County
Chamber of Commerce (1615 S. Chestnut) on March 2nd
or 3rd from 9:00 a.m. to noon and Security
Shredding will shred and recycle your documents. This event
is free of charge to the community.
Help us
celebrate the “Great American Clean-up” by cleaning out
unwanted waste while knowing your
confidential documents are being completely destroyed
on site.
Please contact Amanda Anderson with any
questions 936 63CLEAN (632-5326) or email
aanderson@lufkintexas.org
Read more about it.
Update!
The Community is Recycling.
The
“Go Green Get Blue” campaign has been a great success. Close
to 4,000 households have signed up for the residential
recycling program, and more are signing up every day. This
means that one-third of Lufkin’s households have committed
to doing their part for the environment, the economy and
their community. We appreciate the support from the
community.
Solid Waste and Recycling employees began picking up blue
carts from households that haven’t signed up yet on April
2nd. Those who requested larger carts will receive them
after the initial round
of carts has been picked up. We’re
asking residents to be patient, as the process will likely
take several weeks to complete.
All we’re asking residents to do is place their blue carts
out on their regular collection day. Place the carts
curbside by 7 a.m. and leave them out until 5 p.m. Our crews
will do the rest. And if you still want to sign up for the
recycling program, just call 633-0281 or use the
form on this website.
Pictured above:
Father Art Callaham tosses old bulletins and
encourages members of St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church to do
the same. Father Art has a new blue recycling cart as part
of th City of Lufkin's GO GREEN/GET BLUE campaign. Sign up
for your cart online at
www.lufkinrecycles.com or call 936.633.0281.
The
City of Lufkin is beginning a campaign to deter people and
businesses from littering.
Purple signs reading "Purple Pride Do Not Litter," will be
placed around Lufkin, warning people they can receive fines
up to $500 if they are caught littering.
Assistant Director of Solid Waste and Recycling Lynn
Winthrop says that the campaign is about community pride.
"With all of the positive things happening in Lufkin, we
don't want to get bogged down with unsightly trash blowing
along our roadways and clogging up our drainage ditches,."
Deputy City Manager Keith Wright, who had the idea for
the campaign, said that "we have a real litter problem in
the community," and says he sees these signs, along with
substantial fines, as a way to keep the city of Lufkin
litter-free.
Read more about it in the Lufkin Daily News.
CHOOSE TO RECYCLE!
First Saturday in June was ‘Tire Day’ for
Local Residents

Tire
Day 2009 was a great success. City of Lufkin Solid Waste
and Recycling crews collected 3,995 tires to make this
the most successful Tire Day event ever. (That’s 666
tires per hour and 11 tires per minute!) We’ve collected
a grand total of 16, 295 tires during this and past
events. Thanks to the community for continuing to
support this worthwhile event, and thanks to a great
group of sponsors, including: Herman Power Tire Service;
Lufkin Daily News; and radio stations KICKS 105, Q107,
and KFOX 95.5.
View the slide show.
The
City of Lufkin’s recycling program is moving forward and we
want you to be a part of it. Every household now has the
opportunity to choose to recycle. Solid Waste will begin
removing blue carts citywide on April 2nd. Only
those households that request to participate in the
recycling program will get to keep their blue carts.
More than
3,000 households signed up for the recycling program before
Hurricane Ike delayed the project last year. There’s no need
to contact us if you’re one of those households. If you
haven’t signed up to continue participating, however, now is
the time to do it. All you have to do is call the City at
633-0281 or click on
Select Your Carts
and let us know you want to recycle.
After
signing up, all you have to do is continue placing your blue
cart curbside by 7 a.m. on your regular
collection day. If you requested a larger blue cart, crews
will switch out the carts after they have been emptied, so
please leave your cart curbside until 5 p.m.
We’re
calling this campaign
GO GREEN
and
GET BLUE.
“Go green” by choosing to recycle, which
n ot
only helps the environment but also has an economic impact
on the community. “Go blue” by contacting us to make sure
you
have a blue cart.
Recycling
is easy. All you have to do is place cardboard, paper,
aluminum cans, steel cans and plastic bottles and jugs
inside your blue cart. The material doesn’t have to be
separated, but we do ask you to rinse out bottles and cans
and make sure there’s no food or other contaminates on any
of the material. Then just roll the cart to the curb on
collection day... and we’ll do the rest.
The
GO GREEN
and
GET BLUE
campaign is designed to eliminate contamination from
the recycling stream. Too many households in the past have
used their blue carts for regular household
garbage. Dirty diapers, rotten food, dead animals and other
nasty stuff contaminate the recycling stream. The good work
of thousands of households can be ruined by those who don’t
recycle correctly. Read the editorial in the
Lufkin Daily News.
So make the switch today! Call 633-0281 or click the link
above and CHOOSE TO RECYCLE!
We appreciate the support of our community partners!
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