Annual Cleanup/Recycling Day scheduled for Sept. 17

FALLBROOK – Keep Fallbrook Clean and Green has scheduled their annual community-wide Clean Up/Recycling Day for Saturday, Sept. 17, in conjunction with the county and state-wide clean up scheduled by I Love a Clean San Diego, the California Coastkeeper, and the California Coastal Commission.

Residents will have an opportunity to help with large item clean up activities around town, as well as to participate in a number of recycling events. All these activities, except for the car/industrial battery event, will take place in the large dirt lot at the northeast corner of Pepper Tree Lane and South Mission between 9 a.m. and noon. No tires and no household hazardous waste (paints, chemicals) will be accepted.

The free E-waste event is being handled by E-World Recyclers, a Vista company that is committed to ensuring that nothing they process ever ends up in a landfill, making them a natural choice for Fallbrook’s 2011 Recycling Day. All electronic equipment is eligible for disposal at this event.

Residents may also take advantage of the free paper shredding event sponsored by Thomas Caso of Shred-It of Vista. The Shred-It folks will also offer free destruction of all information on any hard drive brought in to the E-waste recycling activity, but residents need to remove the hard drive from their computer and bring both items separately to this event.

The event will include a cell phone recycling activity, “Cell Phones for Soldiers,” organized by the Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW Post 1924. Every cell phone that is recycled generates an hour of talk time for a soldier abroad.

A car/truck/industrial battery collection feature, sponsored by Dave Gleason of BP (Battery Pros) Batteries is also a part of the Recycle Day. Residents can recycle industrial batteries, automobile batteries, heavy equipment batteries or solar batteries at BP Batteries, 805 E. Mission Road, from 9 a.m. to noon.

All the recycling events are limited to individuals and are free to North County residents. Businesses should contact the participating recyclers directly to schedule an appointment.

Fallbrook’s clean up activities include both a community “sweep” for large items abandoned along streets and roadways as well as litter pickup on neighborhood streets. All interested volunteers are welcome.

Volunteers need to sign up at http://cleanupday.org/cleanupsites and will sign in at the dirt lot area before heading out into the community for their cleanup activities.