Last Saturday, Keep Chamblee Beautiful (KCB), and Live Thrive held an event to collect hard-to-recycle materials. At the event, I had the opportunity to chat with the Live Thrive director, Peggy Whitlow Ratcliffe. I inquired about the possibility of bringing a Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM) facility to Chamblee. Currently, the closest location is on Hill Street In downtown Atlanta. Bringing a CHaRM facility to our city would add a level of convenience for our residents and keep our city cleaner.
What is CHaRM? From their website: The Center for Hard to Recycle Materials (CHaRM) facility is a premier program of the nonprofit, Live Thrive. It is a permanent drop-off facility that aims to improve our environmental health by encouraging reuse and diverting thousands of pounds of household hazardous waste, bulky trash, and other hard-to-recycle items from Metro-Atlanta landfills and water systems. CHaRM also accepts sorted single-stream items for those who do not have access. All operations expenses for CHaRM are paid from grants, donations, and recycling fees.
Environmental sustainability is a key tenet of my campaign. If elected, I will work with my fellow Council members to leverage strategic partnerships with organizations like Live Thrive and Keep Chamblee Beautiful to bring additional recycling services like CHaRM to Chamblee.
Click on the links below to learn more about Livethrive.org & KCB.org.
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