Share your best tips and tricks for living the green life here in Marietta.
We're looking for all the great ways Marietta natives are working to preserve and protect the Earth. From composting to creative recycling, we want to hear what you do to minimize your carbon footprint, reduce waste, and just live a greener lifestyle. Please tell us in the comments below or upload a picture!
Keep Marietta Beautiful and Keep Cobb Beautiful will host document-shredding events at the front lot of Marietta Power and Water and Piedmont Church, respectively, on Saturday, March 16.
If you have confidential or sensitive documents that need to be safely discarded, Keep Marietta Beautiful and Keep Cobb Beautiful are hosting free document-shredding events. In addition, if you have gently-worn shoes, you can donate them. Rubber band the pairs of shoes to keep them together. Keep Marietta Beautiful Document Shredding Keep Cobb Beautiful Document Shredding
Here is the Cobb County guide to recycling all of your old things, from paper and glass to clothes and phones.
Need to find a new home for old computers or phones or books you no longer read? Here is our guide to getting stuff out of your basement and into all the right places—that is, everywhere but the landfill. Aluminum Cans may be dropped off at no charge at the Smurfit Stone Recycling Center located at 1775 County Services Parkway, Marietta, GA 30008. Aluminum Scrap may be disposed of for a fee at the Advanced Disposal Transfer Station located at 1897 County Services Parkway, Marietta, GA 30008. Antifreeze may be disposed of for a fee at the Advanced Disposal Transfer Station located at 1897 County Services Parkway, Marietta, GA 30008. Carpet Padding may be disposed of for a fee at the Advanced Disposal Transfer Station located at 1897 County…
The city of Marietta will offer free Christmas tree pick up to residents on Wednesday, Jan. 9.
The city of Marietta will offer free Christmas tree pick up to residents on Wednesday, Jan. 9. More info: Marietta's Environmental Services Division, 770-794-5595 Keep up with news by subscribing to our free email newsletter, liking us on Facebook and following us on Twitter.
Keep Cobb Beautiful has joined forces with local recycling companies to give residents a chance to recycle clothes, household linen, shoes, electronics, document shredding and latex paint disposal.
Celebrated annually on Nov. 15, America Recycles Day is a nationally recognized day dedicated to encouraging Americans to recycle and buy-recycled products. Keep Cobb Beautiful has joined forces with local recycling companies to give residents a chance to recycle clothes, household linen, shoes, electronics, document shredding and latex paint disposal. The event takes place on Nov. 10 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Jim Miller Park and gives residents a chance to clean up their homes just before the holiday season. Items Accepted: "Appliance Amnesty" will also take place 7 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Cobb County Transfer Station, 1897 County Services Parkway, Marietta. Recycling appliances with Freon/refrigerant will be only $5, instead of the normal $12…
Keep Cobb Beautiful, Keep Smyrna Beautiful and Keep Marietta Beautiful are joining forces to allow Cobb residents to dispose of unwanted documents by shredding them.
1. Keep Cobb Beautiful, Keep Smyrna Beautiful and Keep Marietta Beautiful are joining forces to allow Cobb residents to dispose of unwanted documents by shredding them on Saturday. From 9 a.m. to noon, there will be three locations at which residents may have their documents shredded for free. Residents may bring up to 100 pounds of paper to be shredded. The document shredding locations are as follows: 2. Saturday at 9:30 a.m., the Kell High School Marching Longhorns will step-off at North Landing subdivision pool parking. Their objective is to entertain their community while helping serve their community. This is the 4th year of the Kell March-A-Thon. The Longhorns will march through several neighborhoods (North Landing, Jamerson Forest…
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Wind Chime designer and artist Janet Hulsey teams up with bead artist Stacey Stickels and take the ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ vision to heart.
Art is to see and admire, but it is also to hear. Wind Chime designer and artist Janet Hulsey teams up with bead artist Stacey Stickels at Vintage-ology during the First Friday Art Walk on May 6. Using found objects of the past, Acworth artist Hulsey creates wind chimes with everything from vintage English biscuit tins to coffee pots with dangling flatware that make beautiful sounds when dancing in the breeze. Hulsey takes the ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ vision to heart with her art pieces. Stacey Stickles’ bead works include bracelets, necklaces and earrings. These artists will be at Vintage-ology on Marietta Square from 5 to 9 p.m. on May 6. Recently celebrating their two-year anniversary of Vintage-ology, owners Karen Petelik and Susan …
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Don't know what to do with your Christmas tree? Marietta parks are accepting Christmas trees for recycling.
Don't throw out that Christmas Tree. Bring one for the Chipper! Through Saturday, Keep Cobb Beautiful is sponsoring "Bring One for the Chipper," free tree-recycling drop offs at specified locations, including: Christmas trees can be recycled to create fuel, mulch, habitats for wildlife and other useful materials. After Jan. 8, free mulch will be provided to Cobb citizens at Cobb Parks chipper locations as well as at Davey Trees (770-451-7911.) For more information, visit Keep Cobb Beautiful at cobbcounty.org/kcb or call 770-528-1135.
The city of Marietta will pick up Christmas trees. Take a look at what residents have to do before trees are picked up, when the trees will be picked up and how to get free mulch.
By City of Marietta The city of Marietta will offer free Christmas tree pickup to residents the first and second week of January and Wednesday, Jan. 11. What residents have to do before trees are picked up: When trees will be picked up: Free mulch available: For more information contact Marietta's Environmental Services Division at 770-794-5595.
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Don't know what to do with your Christmas tree? Marietta parks and Home Depot locations will accept Christmas trees for recycling.
After the holiday season is over, residents are encouraged to help the environment by recycling their Christmas trees. Recycling trees makes mulch, fuel, wildlife habitats and other useful material. Keep Cobb Beautiful will sponsor free recycling drop-offs. Trees will only be accepted Saturday, Jan. 7, at select Home Depot locations throughout Cobb. For a list of those locations, visit cobbcounty.org/kcb. County Parks and Recreation specified locations will accept drop-offs Dec. 26-Jan. 7. These facilities are: Cobb Parks chipper locations and Davey Trees will have free mulch available to residents after Jan. 7. For more information, visit cobbcounty.org/kcb or call 770-528-1135.
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We are recycling ink cartridges, toner cartridges, cell phones, cameras, MP3 players, and headphones @ Lockheed Elementary School, 1205 Merritt Road, Marietta, GA 30062. more ›