Contact: Sheldon Smith
Phone:  (336) 373-4379

City Provides Eight New Drop-Off Sites for Recycling

GREENSBORO, NC – (June 25, 2008) – The City of Greensboro now has eight new locations for residents to drop off recyclable items. The new sites are located at seven fire stations throughout the city and one at Costco on Wendover Avenue. These locations provide a safe and convenient place for Greensboro residents to recycle, and bring the total number of City recycling drop-off sites to 17. The new locations are:

 Fire Station #2:  5111 North Church Street
 Fire Station #17:  6405 Old Oak Ridge Road   
 Fire Station #20:  8408 West Market Street    
 Fire Station #21:  2006 Horse Pen Creek Road   
 Fire Station #41:  4504  Lake Brandt Road   
 Fire Station #43:  4854 Lake Jeanette Road   
 Fire Station #48:  1400 West Vandalia Road   
 Costco:  4201 West Wendover Avenue

Additional drop-off site locations:

 Fire Station #7 -1064 Gatewood Avenue
 Fire Station #14 - 3633 Summit Avenue
 Fire Station #19 - 6900 Downwind Road
 Jaycee Park - 3110 Forest Lawn Drive
 Windsor Community Center - 1601 East Lee Street
 Grimsley High School - 801 Westover Terrace
 Smith High School - 2407 South Holden Road
 Lindley Elementary School - 2700 Camden Road
 Guilford County Cooperative Extension Services - 3309 Burlington Road

Residents may bring any recyclable items that are accepted in the City’s program, including plastic bottles and jugs with a #1 or a #2; aluminum, steel, tin and aerosol cans; paper, newspaper, magazines and catalogs; cardboard and chipboard; glass food and beverage containers; and hard plastics such as buckets, milk crates, laundry baskets, lawn furniture, nursery trays, and flower pots.

The Costco at Wendover Avenue is the City’s first public / private recycling partnership. Additional partnerships of this type are planned for the future.

Funding for five of the new recycling dumpsters was provided by a state recycling grant. Funding for the other nine was provided by FCR, the City’s materials recovery facility for recycling.

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