Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful to Celebrate America Recycles Day with November 8 Community Event

Environmentally Focused Nonprofit Teams Up with Gwinnett County Solid Waste Management to Collect Electronics, Paint, Tires, Textiles, and Paper for Recycling at Gwinnett County Fairgrounds

Lawrenceville, Ga. – October 23, 2025 – Commemorated annually on November 15 by millions all across the nation, America Recycles Day is a Keep America Beautiful (KAB) initiative that promotes recycling and encourages communities to pledge to reduce, reuse, and recycle. For Georgia’s Gwinnett County leg of the celebration, KAB affiliate – Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful (GC&B)  – will partner with Gwinnett County Solid Waste Management to host an America Recycles Day event at Gwinnett County Fairgrounds on Saturday, November 8. Between 9 a.m. and noon, Gwinnett County residents are invited to drop off select hard-to-recycle items that are not accepted curbside.

“While you’ll find Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful out and about in the community throughout November and December, America Recycles Day always marks one of our final major events of the year,” said Schelly Marlatt, Executive Director of the eco-focused nonprofit. “And it’s fitting! While we are focused year-round on community cleanup and beautification projects, environmental education through Gwinnett County Public Schools, promotion of sustainable practices, and monitoring of our local water sources through Adopt-A-Stream, conveying the importance of recycling remains a foundational element of our organization. In November 2024 alone, Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful and our fellow Keep America Beautiful affiliates collected 2.4 million pounds of recyclables.”

Items that will be collected during the Gwinnett County America Recycles Day event on November 8 include:

  • Paper for shredding – participants are asked to limit their paper to five copier paper boxes
  • Electronics – Recycling is free except for TVs, monitors, and printers – ($15 cash fee per monitor or regular TV; $5 cash fee per printer). Projectors/Console TVs will be accepted for a $35 cash fee
  • Paint – Oil-based and latex paint will be accepted during the event, but participants are asked to limit their paint to 10 gallons per vehicle. Empty or rusted paint cans will not be accepted, and cans must contain at least 25% wet paint to be recycled
  • Tires – Participants are asked to limit their drop-off to 8 tires per vehicle. No dealer tires will be accepted, and tires must have rims removed and be free of water and debris
  • Gently Used Clothes and Sneakers 

Participants should bear in mind that boxes and containers will NOT be returned, so they may wish to use disposable containers for their collected items. To ensure the success of another America Recycles Day event this year, Marlatt has issued a last call for volunteers. She indicated that volunteering for community events is best suited for families with children aged 16+ and groups – like churches, companies, neighborhoods, civic organizations, and schools – that include 1-20 people. Anyone interested can register at https://cerv.is/0024×5113. Asked to plan to be on-site from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., volunteers will receive a complimentary event t-shirt while supplies last. Gwinnett County Fairgrounds is located at 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway in Lawrenceville. 

The next initiatives on the GC&B calendar to wrap up 2025 are the Yellow River Trash Bash – hosted in partnership with Yellow River Water Trail, Gwinnett Parks & Recreation, and Gwinnett Department of Water Resources at Yellow River Park in Stone Mountain on November 15 and its annual “treecycling” event – Bring One for the Chipper. Collection of live Christmas trees will kick off on December 26, 2025 at select fire stations throughout the county – culminating in a tree chipping event at Bethesda Park in Lawrenceville in late January 2026. To learn more about upcoming events, prospective participants are encouraged to bookmark the GC&B event calendar at www.GwinnettCB.org. 

About Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful:  Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful Services, Inc. (GC&B) is a Keep America Beautiful affiliate and award-winning 501(c)(3) charitable organization. It boasts an expansive community-based network dedicated to finding long-term solutions to environmental and quality-of-life issues through individual action. The organization is guided by a Citizens Advisory Board that represents all sectors of the Gwinnett County community. A nationally recognized leader in creating cleaner, greener, and more livable communities throughout Gwinnett, GC&B involves more than 100,000 volunteers annually to clean and restore public places, recycle more, protect watersheds, and develop the next generation of environmental stewards. To learn more about Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful and its mission of “Connecting People and Resources for a Sustainable Gwinnett,” please visit www.GwinnettCB.org. The organization invites you to connect with Gwinnett Clean & Beautiful on Facebook (@gwinnettcb), Instagram (@greengwinnett), LinkedIn (@gwinnett-clean-beautiful), and X (@gogreengwinnett). 

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