New Items Accepted at Whitehouse Large Item Roundup
The Whitehouse Large Item Roundup ( also known as Clean Whitehouse Day) is fast approaching, and with it, a whole new set of items accepted, electronic stuff! A local company, STS Electronic Recycling will have a truck on site for residents wishing to drop off old and broken electronic equipment. Items such as monitors, computers, cell phones, radios, fax machines, digital cameras and more are accepted. For a full list of items accepted, go to the bottom of the article.
As stated by a representative from STS Electronic Recycling, “We can aid you in recycling out of date, nonworking, or unwanted electronic equipment. THIS RECYCLING SERVICE IS PROVIDED AT NO COST TO YOU. All recyclables processed by STS Electronic Recycling are either reused or physically destroyed and recycled. We assure you that your business or personal information will be destroyed to Department of Defense (DOD) standards and we will provide you with a certificate of destruction if desired. Please visit our website at www.stsrecycle.com for more information.”
Computers (towers and laptops) Monitors Printers
Cables, mice, and keyboards Fax machines Telephones and telephone systems
Cell phones Copy machines Scanners Servers Projectors
Digital cameras Flat screen TVs (we do NOT accept tubed TVs)
VCR and DVD players Gaming systems Radios and stereos
Microwaves
Dates Set for Large Item Roundup and Citywide Garage Sale!
We are now heading into the fall season, and with that comes thoughts of fall cleaning……and Keep Whitehouse Beautiful is here to help! With two events, the Large Item Round up and the Citywide Garage Sale, we are going to help you to REDUCE, REUSE, and RECYCLE!
Items dropped off at the last Large Item Roundup in March 2011
The Whitehouse Large Item Roundup, formerly known as Clean Whitehouse Day, is scheduled for Saturday, October 22nd from 8:00am – 12:00pm at the Whitehouse Recycle Center. This is a twice yearly event sponsored by the City of Whitehouse and Keep Whitehouse Beautiful. According to Event Coordinator Eddie Ray, this event pulls in more unwanted items each year. “This is a great time to go through your house and find those items that are unsuitable for regular garbage pickup or recycling. Broken bikes and toys, old grills, rusted metal, mattresses and appliances are some of the more popular items we see”, states Ms. Ray. Tires are welcome too, for a $2 disposal fee. Yard waste, construction debris, paints and chemicals are NOT ALLOWED.
A Boy Scout troop participating in the Citywide Garage Sale in 2009
The Whitehouse Citywide Garage Sale is scheduled for Saturday, November 5th and just like last year, we hope to have numerous households and organizations holding garage sales. We will be blasting the date through media and the internet and if you are wanting to hold a sale that day, please send an e-mail to info@keepwhitehousebeautiful.com. We will add you to the list and start compiling a downloadable map for shoppers to help them navigate through Whitehouse the day of the sale. And keep checking back to this site regularly for updated information!
Keep Whitehouse Beautiful Awarded Governor’s Community Achievement Award for 2011
Keep Whitehouse Beautiful volunteer Angela Klein presents the certificate of award for the 2011 GCAA at the July 2011 Whitehouse City Council meeting. From left: Mike Peterson, City Manager; Angela Klein; Mayor Danny Hogden
Keep Texas Beautiful has awarded Keep Whitehouse Beautiful the 2011 Governor’s Community Achievement Award (GCAA) in the category of population size 5,000 to 9,000. Per the report compiled by Keep Texas Beautiful: “In 2010, members of Keep Whitehouse Beautiful, together with local citizens, volunteered a total of 3,747 hours to community projects, and participated in 15 community events over the course of last year, reaching over 5,000 citizens. They also had direct contact with approximately 2,000 elementary students. Every school in Whitehouse participated in a recycling program last year, collecting everything from paper, cardboard and aluminum to ink jet and toner cartridges. KWB is active on five of six WISD campuses, and has taken the lead in working with educators to teach environmental, litter prevention and recycling lessons to all grades. Examples include: more than 350 first graders participating in a litter abatement and nature appreciation day, during which they completed booklets about littering and received a litter bag and a pencil; more than 330 third graders discussing why we recycle and creating Christmas ornaments from homemade paper embedded with phlox seeds; and nearly 370 sixth graders researching the advantages and disadvantages of various energy sources and testing objects at home to gauge their energy use. The local YMCA joined the action in 2010 as well, offering for the first time a six-week gardener program for their upper elementary summer campers. It was a huge success!
The KTB award for sustained excellence from 2009-2011
When the 2010 Don’t Mess with Texas Trash-Off rolled around, Whitehouse residents were ready to dive right in. Over 300 citizens – from Boy Scouts and school groups to church members, business people and city leaders – cleared 43.25 miles of roadway, collecting more than 7,000 pounds of litter in the process. The semi-annual Whitehouse’s Large Item Roundup was equally successful, netting 80 appliances, 27,000 pounds of scrap metal and 75 tires.
The local recycling center worked overtime as well last year. Staffed by only a city supervisor, community service workers served as the center’s workforce. They provided 1,108 hours of labor at no cost to the city, accepting and processing more than 255,000 pounds of recyclables, including 78,000 pounds of cardboard, more than 18,500 pounds of plastic, nearly 6,000 pounds of steel cans and over 150,000 pounds of paper. In a time of statewide budget cuts, Whitehouse pocketed more than $8,500 thanks to its efforts. With its environmental achievements acting as a beacon for the entire region, the city of Whitehouse is most certainly delivering on its goal of creating a healthier, more modern city.”
Thank you to Keep Texas Beautiful for its incredible leadership to all the local affiliates throughout the state. Go to the link below to view the page on the KTB site about Keep Whitehouse Beautiful and to view a slideshow of pictures from Whitehouse.
Video from LitteringIsWrongToo campaign kickoff – June 25, 2011
On Saturday, June 25th at Whitehouse City Park during the YesterYear 2011 festivities, Keep Whitehouse Beautiful kicked off the LitteringIsWrongToo campaign to the community. Residents were asked to write a wrong on an eraseboard and have their picture taken with it. This is a national campaign sponsored by Keep America Beautiful to get the message out to citizens that Littering Is Wrong Too. The website for the campaign is www.litteringiswrongtoo.org
United Way Day of Caring Comes to Whitehouse!
Over 20 volunteers showed up at Whitehouse City Park around 9am on Friday, June 10th to weed the front flower beds during the United Way of Tyler/Smith County Day of Caring. The volunteers who were from Citizen State Bank, In Magazine, Keep Whitehouse Beautiful, Regions Bank and Trane, worked with hoes, spades, shovels…anything to break up the weeds that have overtaken the flower beds. Project coordinators Kathy Moore and Joyce Napolitano, of Keep Whitehouse Beautiful, said that after the weeding, a weed control carpet would be laid down and then mulch put on top to prevent any more weeds from coming up.
Whitehouse City Park was only one of many Tyler-wide projects that received assistance from volunteers today. Over 40 non-profit agencies received hands-on help from local companies and individuals. A big thank you to everyone who participated!
