Litter and Recycling
Individual
The average citizen produces seven and a half pounds of garbage every day that ends up in landfills and litters our lands costing you money. Each year, millions of dollars are spent picking up litter and more is thrown away in valuable materials that could be recycled. Check out the programs below to find out how you can help save money, reduce pollution, protect wildlife and preserve the natural resources around you.
I Don't Recycle
Go to YouGottaBeKidding.org to get the truth about Georgia’s recycling efforts.
Adopt-a-Highway
Georgia's Adopt-A-Highway Program enlists citizen volunteers' help to remove litter from state roadsides.
Backyard Composting
Anything biodegradable will eventually break down, but the rate of decomposition depends on the conditions. Organic waste compressed in a landfill may take tens or hundreds of years to decompose!
Bring one for the Chipper
Bring one for the Chipper is Georgia's annual Christmas tree recycling program.
Composting
Find information on how to start your own compost pile while saving money, space, and a valuable addition to your garden.
Computer Recycling
Tips for ways you can recycle your old computer equipment.
EcoVille Georgia
Environmental education for individuals, educators, and businesses. Recycling how-to's, benefits, and quick tips are easily accessible, as well as recycling locations around Georgia.
Georgia Statewide Waste Composition Computer Model
The Department of Community Affairs saw a need for the ability to compute the waste stream composition and offers counties a cost efficient computer calculator.
Great American Clean-up
Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup includes beautifying parks and recreation areas, cleaning seashores and waterways, handling recycling collections, picking up litter, planting trees and flowers, and conducting educational programs and litter-free events.
Home Recycling
Tips for help at home as well as information on what to do with old paint, gasoline or chemicals.
Junior Rangers Program
Free workbook listing nature-based activities that children can do. Designated age groups work toward earning a Junior Ranger Badge.
Keep Georgia Beautiful
For 30 years, Keep Georgia Beautiful has been working with volunteers from our statewide network of affiliates to protect and improve Georgia's environment.
Keep It In Your Bed...Secure Your Load
All of us share a responsibility to make sure Georgia is clean. You may not intentionally litter, but if you're not securing the items in your pickup truck, they could easily become litter.
Recycle Your Next Event
A How-To resource for waste diversion and minimization at Georgia festivals, conferences, and other gatherings.
Rivers Alive
Rivers Alive is Georgia's annual volunteer waterway cleanup event that targets all waterways in the state including streams, rivers, lakes, beaches, and wetlands. The mission of Rivers Alive is to create awareness of and involvement in the preservation of Georgia's water resources.
Solid Waste Management
While Georgia's recycling and waste reduction efforts have increased, the unsafe waste disposal has decreased. The amount of waste Georgian's send to the landfill has annually increased. Find out what's happening to change this.
Solid Waste Planning
Georgian's produce 12.7 million pounds of waste each year. Find out how the Georgia Department of Community Affairs plans to change this, and what you can do to help.
Why Should I Recycle?
Recycling does make a difference. Learn about easy ways to recycle and the impact you are making on your community.
Business
Each year, millions of dollars are spent picking up litter and more is thrown away in valuable materials that could be recycled. Check out the programs below to find out how you can help save money, reduce pollution, protect wildlife and preserve the natural resources around you.
Adopt-a-Highway
Georgia's Adopt-A-Highway Program enlists citizen volunteers' help to remove litter from state roadsides.
Computer Recycling
Tips for ways you can recycle your old computer equipment.
EcoVille Georgia
Environmental education for individuals, educators, and businesses. Recycling how-to's, benefits, and quick tips are easily accessible, as well as recycling locations around Georgia.
Georgia Statewide Waste Composition Computer Model
The Department of Community Affairs saw a need for the ability to compute the waste stream composition and offers counties a cost efficient computer calculator.
Great American Clean-up
Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup includes beautifying parks and recreation areas, cleaning seashores and waterways, handling recycling collections, picking up litter, planting trees and flowers, and conducting educational programs and litter-free events.
Keep Georgia Beautiful
For 30 years, Keep Georgia Beautiful has been working with volunteers from our statewide network of affiliates to protect and improve Georgia's environment.
Keep It In Your Bed...Secure Your Load
All of us share a responsibility to make sure Georgia is clean. You may not intentionally litter, but if you're not securing the items in your pickup truck, they could easily become litter.
Partnership for a Sustainable Georgia
The Partnership for a Sustainable Georgia assists Georgia businesses in using continuous improvement tools to reach better environmental results and a better bottom line. It provides Partners free assistance, opportunities to connect with other leaders, and recognition for sustainability efforts. The program is free and open to any business or organization that operates in Georgia.
Recycle Your Next Event
A How-To resource for waste diversion and minimization at Georgia festivals, conferences, and other gatherings.
Rivers Alive
Rivers Alive is Georgia's annual volunteer waterway cleanup event that targets all waterways in the state including streams, rivers, lakes, beaches, and wetlands. The mission of Rivers Alive is to create awareness of and involvement in the preservation of Georgia's water resources.
Scrap Match Georgia
The Georgia Industrial Materials Exchange allows only Georgia companies, institutions, commercial entities, or businesses to post their unwanted Materials Available.
Solid Waste Management
While Georgia's recycling and waste reduction efforts have increased, the unsafe waste disposal has decreased. The amount of waste Georgian's send to the landfill has annually increased. Find out what's happening to change this.
Sustainability Division
A non-regulatory division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources that provides free and confidential environmental assistance in areas of pollution prevention, waste reduction, water and energy efficiency, and sustainability.
Sustainable Office Toolkit
The Sustainable Office Toolkit is a set of resources and tools developed by The Sustainability Division to help offices of all types and size move toward sustainability through practices such as recycling, energy and water conservation, and "green" building.
Waste in the Workplace
How much does your company pay for its waste? Businesses learn to conduct waste audits, identify recyclables, manage disposal costs and purchase recycled products at Waste in the Workplace workshops.
Educator
The average citizen produces seven and a half pounds of garbage every day that ends up in landfills and litters our lands costing you money. Each year, millions of dollars are spent picking up litter and more is thrown away in valuable materials that could be recycled. Check out the programs below to find out how you can help save money, reduce pollution, protect wildlife and preserve the natural resources around you.
Adopt-a-Highway
Georgia's Adopt-A-Highway Program enlists citizen volunteers' help to remove litter from state roadsides.
Computer Recycling
Tips for ways you can recycle your old computer equipment.
EcoVille Georgia
Environmental education for individuals, educators, and businesses. Recycling how-to's, benefits, and quick tips are easily accessible, as well as recycling locations around Georgia.
Environmental Education in Georgia
Gives educators access to Georgia's environmental and conservation education resources in one place by providing a searchable online organization directory, school directory, calendar of events, and resource database.
Georgia Green and Healthy Schools Program
The Georgia Green and Healthy Schools Program assists and supports schools in understanding and practicing environmentally sound principles. Students and teachers use self-assessment tools to conduct school-based investigations then implement improvement projects in up to six topic areas including solid waste management.
Georgia Statewide Waste Composition Computer Model
The Department of Community Affairs saw a need for the ability to compute the waste stream composition and offers counties a cost efficient computer calculator.
Junior Rangers Program
Free workbook listing nature-based activities that children can do. Designated age groups work toward earning a Junior Ranger Badge.
Keep Georgia Beautiful
For 30 years, Keep Georgia Beautiful has been working with volunteers from our statewide network of affiliates to protect and improve Georgia's environment.
School Recycling Guide
Trying to start a recycling program at your school, but unsure where to begin? Keep Georgia Beautiful worked with educators and recycling experts to create a comprehensive guide that will show you how to get started recycling!
Waste in Place
Hungry for a garbage pizza? Want to plant a waste garden? How about dancing the garbage stomp? Learn more about Keep Georgia Beautiful's Waste in Place workshops for Educators.
Government
Each year, millions of dollars are spent picking up litter and more is thrown away in valuable materials that could be recycled. Check out the programs below to find out how you can help save money and preserve the natural resources around you.
Adopt-a-Highway
Georgia's Adopt-A-Highway Program enlists citizen volunteers' help to remove litter from state roadsides.
Computer Recycling
Tips for ways you can recycle your old computer equipment.
EcoVille Georgia
Environmental education for individuals, educators, and businesses. Recycling how-to's, benefits, and quick tips are easily accessible, as well as recycling locations around Georgia.
Georgia MSW Characterization Study
A comprehensive sampling plan, data and procedures that can be used by cities across Georgia to estimate composition of disposed solid waste.
Georgia Quality Growth Partnership
Provides local governments and citizens with the tools and knowledge to transform the way we define, create and sustain high quality Georgia communities.
Georgia State Solid Waste Management Plan
The Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Act sets a path toward improved solid waste management in the state.
Georgia Statewide Waste Composition Computer Model
The Department of Community Affairs saw a need for the ability to compute the waste stream composition and offers counties a cost efficient computer calculator.
Great American Clean-up
Keep America Beautiful's Great American Cleanup includes beautifying parks and recreation areas, cleaning seashores and waterways, handling recycling collections, picking up litter, planting trees and flowers, and conducting educational programs and litter-free events.
Keep Georgia Beautiful
For 30 years, Keep Georgia Beautiful has been working with volunteers from our statewide network of affiliates to protect and improve Georgia's environment.
Partnership for a Sustainable Georgia
The Partnership for a Sustainable Georgia assists Georgia businesses in using continuous improvement tools to reach better environmental results and a better bottom line. It provides Partners free assistance, opportunities to connect with other leaders, and recognition for sustainability efforts. The program is free and open to any business or organization that operates in Georgia.
Pay As You Throw
Ensures that citizens/businesses see and feel the cost of waste disposal services.
Recycle Your Next Event
A How-To resource for waste diversion and minimization at Georgia festivals, conferences, and other gatherings.
Recycling
The Office of Environmental Management offers technical assistance to local governments in starting and maintaining recycling programs.
Scrap Match Georgia
The Georgia Industrial Materials Exchange allows only Georgia companies, institutions, commercial entities, or businesses to post their unwanted Materials Available.
Sustainability Division
A non-regulatory division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources that provides free and confidential environmental assistance in areas of pollution prevention, waste reduction, water and energy efficiency, and sustainability.
Sustainable Office Toolkit
The Sustainable Office Toolkit is a set of resources and tools developed by The Sustainability Division to help offices of all types and size move toward sustainability through practices such as recycling, energy and water conservation, and "green" building.
Technical Assistance
The Georgia Department of Community Affairs works with other agencies to help the government in all areas of waste management.
Agriculture
Each year, millions of dollars are spent picking up litter and more is thrown away in valuable materials that could be recycled. Check out the programs below to find out how you can help save money and preserve the natural resources around you.
Keep Georgia Beautiful
For 30 years, Keep Georgia Beautiful has been working with volunteers from our statewide network of affiliates to protect and improve Georgia's environment.
Keep It In Your Bed...Secure Your Load
All of us share a responsibility to make sure Georgia is clean. You may not intentionally litter, but if you're not securing the items in your pickup truck, they could easily become litter.
Partnership for a Sustainable Georgia
The Partnership for a Sustainable Georgia assists Georgia businesses in using continuous improvement tools to reach better environmental results and a better bottom line. It provides Partners free assistance, opportunities to connect with other leaders, and recognition for sustainability efforts. The program is free and open to any business or organization that operates in Georgia.
Scrap Match Georgia
The Georgia Industrial Materials Exchange allows only Georgia companies, institutions, commercial entities, or businesses to post their unwanted Materials Available.
Sustainability Division
A non-regulatory division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources that provides free and confidential environmental assistance in areas of pollution prevention, waste reduction, water and energy efficiency, and sustainability.