Recycling at the City's Park and Recreation Centers
Since 1992, the City's Environmental Services Department has operated
recycling stations at Park and Recreation Centers throughout the City.
These recycling locations offer residents who are not able to participate
in the City's curbside recycling program
an opportunity to recycle and support the recreation centers at the same
time.
ESD presents a check for recycling revenue to members of a recreation
council. |
The City currently operates recycling stations at 44 Park and Recreation
Centers throughout San Diego. Revenue earned from the sale of recyclables
dropped off at park facility recycling stations directly benefits the
centers. Funding from this program has helped purchase items at the recreation
facilities such as jerseys and trophies for youth leagues, gymnastics
mats, tennis court nets, table tennis equipment, benches for basketball
courts, brochures, and funded special events such as spring egg hunts
and Halloween carnivals.
Since the program's inception, approximately 15,000 tons of recyclables
have been diverted from disposal at the Miramar Landfill and $820,872
in revenue from the sale of recyclables has been donated to the help the
Park and Recreation Centers.
For more than a decade, the City's recycling programs, which include
the Park and Recreation Recycling Program, have saved more than $18 million
from the City's General Fund.
What recyclable items are accepted?
Some people say they don't recycle because the rules are too confusing.
That's why the City adopted the Keep It Short and Simple (KISS) rules
for recycling in the curbside recycling program and at Park and Recreation
facilities.
KISS -- Keep It Short and Simple
- Give us all your paper
- Your cardboard
- Your bottles, jars and cans
- And don't forget shredded paper.
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