Recycle Your Cell Phone

Recycle Your Cell Phone and Earn for KIB!

Sprint, in partnership with Keep America Beautiful (KAB), presented Keep Indianapolis Beautiful with a $5,000 award for collecting the most wireless phones in the Large Population Category (more than 250,000) during the 2008 Wipe Out Wireless Waste (WOWW) campaign.

In addition to the WOWW award, KIB receives a percentage of the proceeds for every cell phone donated from the Indianapolis area! Now you can keep precious metals out of the landfill and help support KIB.

Christmas Tree Recycling

Indy Parks Announces
Collection Sites for
Christmas Tree Recycling

Program helps Indy Parks meet need for mulch for city parks, trails and playgrounds. Indy Parks & Recreation will offer seven drop-off locations in Marion County for residents to recycle their Christmas trees from Dec. 29, 2008, through Jan. 31, 2009.

Indy Parks’ tree recycling program diverts waste from the landfill and adds mulch to our parks and street trees. Last year, Indy Parks recycled nearly 25,000 Christmas trees. Residents are encouraged to help make Indianapolis a more sustainable city and take advantage of this easy, environmentally friendly way to dispose of their trees.

Residents are asked to remove all ornaments, lights, tree stands, plastic bags, nails and other decorations before drop-off. No artificial trees or materials will be accepted. Trees will be accepted at the following locations during normal park hours (dawn to dusk), seven days a week. Follow signs within each park to the specific drop-off locations.

* Broad Ripple Park, 1610 Broad Ripple Ave., south lot.
* Ellenberger Park, 5301 E. St. Clair St., west of pool in main parking lot.
* Garfield Park, 2450 S. Shelby St., McAllister Center parking lot.
* Krannert Park, 605 S. High School Road, north parking lot.
* Riverside Park, 2420 N. Riverside Drive, tennis court parking lot.
* Perry Park, 451 E. Stop 11 Road, soccer field parking lot.
* Sahm Park, 6801 E. 91st St., soccer field parking lot.

For more information, visit www.indyparks.org or call 327-PARK.

Holiday Recycling

3rd Annual Post Holiday Recycling Event

Saturday, January 10th, 2009, from 10am to 2pm you can recycle your holiday tree, gift boxes and old electronics at the 3rd annual Post Holiday Recycling Event, sponsored by the City of Indianapolis, Indy Parks and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. Old cell phones will also be collected, and benefit KIB programs.

KIB volunteers will be on hand to help residents unload materials at four Indy Parks:

*Broad Ripple Park, 1550 Broad Ripple Avenue
*Garfield Park, 2345 Pagoda Drive (near the intersection of Shelby and Raymond)
*Krannert Park, 605 S. High School Road
*Ellenberger Park, 5301 E. St. Clair Street

Contact Tammy Stevens, KIB Recycling Coordinator with any questions at tstevens@kibi.org.

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