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Upcoming Events
REMINDER:
There will be no garbage, recycling, yard waste or bulk collections on:
* Christmas Day, Monday, Dec. 25, 2023
* New Year's Day, Monday, Jan. 1, 2024.
Solid Waste collections will operate on a modified pickup schedule until Jan. 6, 2024.
For a full holiday schedule and details on city closures, click here.
Now through Jan. 12
Holiday Grease Roundup
Holiday cooking: savor the flavor, spare the drains! Recycle your holiday fats, cooking oils, or grease for free at one of the four City of Fort Worth Drop-Off Stations or the?Environmental Collection Center. Your pipes will thank you!
Saturday, March 23
8 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Cowtown Great American Cleanup
Registration opens Feb. 1, 2024.
Get ready for Earth Party and the Trashion Fashion Contest, following the Cowtown Cleanup. Contact KFWB for rules.
Saturday, April 13
8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Stop Six - Caville Special Event Litter Cleanup
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Tarrant County
4651 Ramey Ave.
No need to register - show up and clean up!
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Where are you tossing holiday waste?
Recycle cardboard and metal
Where are you tossing all the cardboard rolls, boxes, and metal tins from holiday packaging that you cannot reuse? Rethink your waste?into resources and make sure to recycle?them in your blue cart. Not sure whether or not your item is recyclable? Click here?to check?how to properly dispose of a full list of Holiday-related items.
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Toss holiday decor
Once Holiday celebrations are over, where will you be tossing your lights and decorations? Save them to?reuse?next year,?donate?them, or toss the broken ones in the garbage?cart, along with tissue paper, wrapping paper, and glossy, glittery, or foiled cards. Remember, none of those are recyclable!
Set out natural Christmas trees
Don't throw away your natural Christmas tree! Give it a second life by adding it to your weekly?yard waste pickup. Simply remove all lights, stands, and decorations from your tree, and set it out on the curb by your yard cart on your collection day.?
Residents in apartments can take theirs to any of our four?Drop-off Stations?to be mulched during this season.
Toss damaged artificial trees
Have an artificial tree? Those are not recyclable. If they are not suitable for being reused or donated, please dispose of them?in your brown garbage?cart,?or take them to one of our four Drop-Off Stations.
To keep up-to-date on our programs and events, follow us on Facebook or Twitter!
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Share your opinion!
The City of Fort Worth is collaborating with The North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) and all its regional partners, plus all north Texas residents to develop an Air Quality Improvement Plan for the Dallas-Fort Worth area (DFW AQIP). The funding to develop this plan was made available by the EPA?s Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG). The main goals are to create a roadmap to improve air quality, to protect public health, and to reduce the impacts of extreme weather events.
Residents are invited to give their feedback on projects and strategies that they would like to be considered as a part of the DFW AQIP in two ways:
1. Take the survey today: Offer feedback through the online survey for community members and advocates.
2.Attend an open house: Feedback can also be offered at an upcoming open house hosted by the NCTCOG and the City of Fort Worth. NCTCOG is offering several upcoming open houses across the metroplex, including one in Fort Worth on January 18, 2024. Click here to learn more and view a full list of open houses around North Texas.
City staff clean up Historic Southside
The City of Fort Worth's special event litter cleanups have resumed as part of the Litter: Stop It! Report It! Pick It Up! campaign. This month, a total of?23 Environmental Services staff?removed litter in the Historic Southside area. They?cleaned up neighborhood streets, and a boom truck, a street sweeper, and a Madvac removed extra debris from the area.
In just a few hours on a Saturday morning, 155?bags of trash and loose debris?were collected,?totaling 11,575?pounds of litter!
Keep Fort Worth Beautiful is proud of these teams for their dedication in keeping Fort Worth so safe, so clean, and so green!
We look forward to seeing you, along with other residents and City staff, all come together throughout the city for our next special event cleanup! Save the date for the Cowtown Great American Cleanup on Saturday, March 23, 2024. Registration will go live on February 1, 2024.
Get a team together this semester!
Students K-12 can get on Santa's nice list by joining our School Green Teams program!?New groups are still being accepted for the incoming semester and KFWB would love to see your school participate.
Through this KFWB program, teams are encouraged to complete different environmental activities on their school campus or around Fort Worth to earn points for a chance to win School Green Team of the year. They practice leadership while learning about environmental sustainability, waste and recycling, and litter and beautification. At the end of the school year, the winning team receives a tree planting on their school campus, recognition, and "green swag".
Click here to learn more about School Green Teams, and happy holidays from the Keep Fort Worth Beautiful team!
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Small steps for a more sustainable holiday season
The month of December is a time of joy and reflection. As the year 2023 comes to an end, let's create sustainable holiday traditions with our friends and family!?Click here for tips?from Air North Texas on how to make our holiday season more environmentally-friendly.
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Reducing water consumption
This season of giving means the season of wrapping.? Products that consume high volumes of water to produce are often overly used this time of year. Many would be shocked to learn that up to an estimated 40 liters of water are used to produce the average, non-glittered and non-foiled wrapping paper! Did you also know that a 3.5 oz. milk chocolate bar you may eat when bringing in the New Year with friends and sweet treats, consumes about 450 gallons of water to produce??
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Reduce your water footprint and keep the celebrations rolling into 2024:
- Consider utilizing water-wise and sustainably-produced decorations, gifts, and food options this holiday season - no matter the celebration.
- Consider giving regenerative gifts such as plants, zero waste gift bags, eco-friendly cutlery, shampoo bars and reusable eye masks for the luxury friend, reusable notebooks and refillable pens for the workaholic in your life, bamboo plant pots and package free seed bombs for the gardener who just can?t wait until spring, or giving the gift of a donation a local charity.
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Engage young, creative minds
Do you have a young artist in the family? This is their chance to showcase their talent! Take Care of Texas is celebrating their 10th year of holding the annual Kids Art Contest. This year's theme is recycling. Artwork must illustrate ways that recycling makes a positive impact on the environment, and it must contain the phrase ?Take Care of Texas?.?Entries will be accepted from January 3 - March 1, 2024.
Kids grades K-5 - whether from?public, charter, or private schools, or homeschooled - are encouraged to submit their artwork for a chance to win a prize. Winners may win a tablet or laptop. Prizes are made possible through a donation from the Texas Chemical Council. For more info or to enter, visit?Art Contest Rules | Take Care of Texas.
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Composting Corner
The City's?Residential Food Waste Composting Program?now has 21 food scraps collection sites conveniently located throughout the city. This is a great option if you are looking to reduce your family's food waste but don't have the time, knowledge, or space to maintain a compost pile in your backyard. Consider registering for the program as a new year?s resolution to make an impact on the environment.
There is a one-time subscription fee of $20 for this program. For just $20, subscribers receive a composting starter kit, and access to all collection sites. Learn more or sign up today!
Reminders to subscribers:
* Remember to compost your Holiday food scraps and leftovers.
* The program only allows for food waste - other items, even if compostable, are not accepted. Please do not put plastic bags in your composting buckets.
Happy holidays and happy composting!
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