Avid community volunteer Barry Krebs submitted the following three reports, with photos, from recent Keep Cobb Beautiful events.

Paint recycling at Jim Miller Park

Barry submitted the following report and photos:

Keep Cobb Beautiful and Cobb Water hosted their Paint Recycling Event at Jim Miller Park. Morning attendance was strong as 100’s of cars lined up to recycling their old paint. Overall, 550 cars drove-thru depositing over 41 containers along with 3 roll on containers of paint to be recycled. Here is link to an article that describes the recycling process for paint https://earth911.com/recycling-guide/how-to-recycle-paint/ . We appreciate North Ward Environmental Services for being very prompt and efficient.

National Medication Takeback Day

Barry submitted the following report and photos:

Keep Cobb Beautiful and Cobb County District Attorney hosted the National Medication Take Back event at several local Cobb County Park locations. Properly disposing of your medications prevents the drugs from getting in soil and water sources. We especially appreciate the police officers who helped with the collections and transported the drugs to a secure central site. With their help and the help from our valued volunteers, we collected 280 cars disposed of 620 lbs. of drugs.

Recycling at Jim Miller Park

Barry Krebs submitted the following report and photos:

Keep Cobb Beautiful hosted their Recycling event at Jim Miller Park servicing 886 cars that drove through the park to drop off their electronics, textiles, Hefty Renew Bags as well as shredding paper. One of the more interesting vendors was EcoSneaker who were accepting used tennis shoes. It takes a tremendous amount of water involved in making sneakers. It is a fascinating process which can be found at www.ecosneakers.org .

After the early morning hours, the wait was minimal to get the items recycled. We appreciate all of the volunteers including McEachern High School students and teacher, Kid’s Care, Habitat For Humanity and the Lions Club. An extra special “thanks” goes out to our police, KCB staff and Board. Because of their efforts, it was a very successful event ‘p895+. All eight of the electronics/metal containers were completely full.