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Thank you to the volunteers who helped at Gage Park Saturday. Next Saturday, August 23rd we will meet at 9:00 a.m. at Lake Shawnee in the parking lot at 37th and West Edge Road.
September 13th, we will meet at BRB Contractors for a cleanup of north Highway 75 at 9:00 a.m. The address is: 3805 NW 25th. Please RSVP 235-0845 or
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September 20th, at 8:00 a.m. we will join the TTT for a makeover of Willow Park. We hope to have many hands to help make this park more beautiful. This is the park that is on 6th Street just north of St. Francis Hospital. The address is 1800 SW 6th. Please bring ladders, weed whackers, rakes, shovels, and pruning saws, if you have them. Please RSVP to Dr. Mark Saylor at
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The Shawnee County Household Hazardous Waste Facility will be participating in the “Kansas Mercury Sweep” from now through September 13th. Please take all items containing mercury to the Household Hazardous Waste Site at 131 NE 46th Street. They will be open on August 2 and September 6th from 9 a.m. – noon. Or call for an appointment 286-4381. Items containing mercury might include: thermometers, blood pressure equipment, mercury switches, and old thermostats. They will not be collecting light bulbs at this time.
Home Depot, 5900 SW Huntoon, is now collecting for proper disposal CFL’s which stands for Compact Fluorscent Lighting.We commonly know these items as the spiral or curly light bulbs.They contain a very, very small amount of mercury, but should still be disposed of properly.For proper disposal, please take your CFL’s to Home Depot.
Project ReDirectory, phone book recycling will kick off at Topeka Zoo on August 1st at 10:00 a.m. Our 2008 theme "Even an elephant doesn't forget to recycle old phone books." New 2008 AT&T Real Yellow Pages directories will be delivered to businesses and residences starting July 28th and old outdated directories can then be dropped off at several locations throughout Topeka and surrounding communities from August 1st through September 21st.Drop-off locations include:·All Dillon Stores·All McDonald Restaurants (except 29th & Oakley)·Auburn – Apple Mart·Brookwood Covenant Church—3601 SW 33rd·Carbondale – Skip’s Thriftway ·City Hall/County Court House – (Circle Drive)·Dover Mercantile·First Christian Church-1880 Gage·First Lutheran Church—131 NE 46th·Holton – Holton Country Mart·Holton – Ron’s IGA ·Household Hazardous Waste Facility-131 NE 46th·Meriden – Country Harvest ·Osage City – Jerry’s Thriftway·Oskaloosa – Pat’s Thriftway·Perry/Lecompton Thriftway·Rossville – Wehner’s Thriftway·Sam’s Club-1401 SW Wanamaker·Silver Lake – Wehner’s Thriftway·Topeka Zoo·Valley Falls – Steve’s Thriftway·Wal-Mart Super Center-1501 SW WanamakerSeveral businesses are supporting Project ReDirectory by offering the following incentives: §AT&T Yellow Pages will provide a Project ReDirectory patch for youth that collect 10 or more phone books. Young people can participate through their local Boy Scout and Girl Scout group or other youth organization.
Participating McDonald’s will give patrons a free small drink in exchange for a telephone directory.
Wipe Out Wireless Waste (WOWW) We are now collecting cell phones to benefit the local KAB affiliate, and to prevent them from going to the landfill. Please contact us for more information.
This part of our new website will be dedicated to featuring businesses or individuals who follow good environmental practices. If you would like to see your business featured here, or if you would like to honor an individual for their best environmental efforts who give back to this community, please send information to
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Thanks to Expert Offroad for their efforts in environmental stewardship!
Expert Offroad
2500 S. Kansas AveTopeka, KS 66611785.232.7000
Expert Offroad is more than just lift kits and big tires, we are everything you never knew you needed for your Truck Jeep or SUV. We sell everything from Tube steps to Grill Guards, tounneau covers and camper tops as well as performance products too. We offer installation as well as complete vehicle maintenance and repair. Yes we do all the 4x4 stuff but just because you don't have a truck or go offroad or play in the mud, our suspension specialists will take care of your every need. Expert Offroad, your one stop shop for ALL of your off and ON road needs!
At Expert Offroad, we recycle nearly everything. We have the smallest trash bin the county will give a business and even though the car lot next door uses it too, we still don't ever fill it up. We have a huge cardboard recycle bin that fills up weekly but we also reuse boxes for our shipments, our scrap steel trailer makes a trip to Langley Recycling every few weeks and we even have a 'packing peanut' hopper that allows us to reuse the packing materials. This is in addition to collecting aluminum cans and double sided printing when possible.Toll free 866-400-4byb785-232-7000www.expertoffroad.com
“Keep America Beautiful is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to cleaning up our city. Their contribution to our public efforts that include neighborhood cleanups, the removal of unnecessary public signage and using inmate work crews in our parks, low-income neighborhoods and city streets is significant, and their involvement is an important ingredient in the success we are experiencing.
I acknowledge the importance of this organization that provides a point of contact to those who are prepared to get involved in recapturing and restoring the natural beauty of this city from the urban clutter that today detracts from that beauty.”
This program is funded in part through the use of funds provided by the City of Topeka
Welcome to Keep America Beautiful - Topeka/Shawnee County!
