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CHaRM facility celebrates Kids Day
In honor of Earth Day, Live Thrive and CHaRM are hosting a special Kids Day on Saturday to teach kids about the importance of recycling through hands-on activities and on-site vendors.
ATLANTA - Unique recycling center hosts Kids Day this weekend:
What do you do when you can’t find the kind of place you need? If you’re Peggy Whitlow Ratcliffe, you create it yourself.
"My parents passed away, and I needed a place to get rid of — or properly dispose of — all the materials they had in their home," she says. "From pesticides, herbicides ... to all of the clothing, old plastics. I needed a place to drop all of that off."
And that’s how Ratcliffe came to create nonprofit organization Live Thrive and its Center for Hard to Recycle Materials, otherwise known as CHaRM. The drop-off facility (located at 1110 Hill Street in Atlanta) accepts a long list of items — including Styrofoam, books, paint, chemicals, and more — which generally end up in landfills. CHaRM workers say more than 90% of items brought to their facility will be recycled, repurposed, or re-engineered; last year, they took in more than 5.7 million pounds of materials, including more than 250,000 pounds of Styrofoam and 4,000 mattresses.
In honor of Earth Day, Live Thrive and CHaRM will host a special Kids Day on Saturday at the site of its upcoming DeKalb County location. From 9 a.m. to noon, children and families can stop by the site (located at 1225 Columbia Drive in Decatur) to learn more about the importance of recycling through hands-on activities and on-site vendors. Leading up to tomorrow’s event, local students in metro Atlanta have been collecting plastic bottles as part of a Plastic Bottle Collection Contest, and winners of the contest will receive prizes during Kids Day.
For more information on CHaRM and to see a full list of the items accepted by the facility, click here.
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How you can join National Volunteer Week
National Volunteer Week is coming up and the National Wildlife Federation wants Georgians to join them in the Clean Earth Challenge. Celebrity naturalist David Mizejewski and animal handler Marjan Ghadrdan join Alex Whittler with some special friends to talk about ways you can do your part.
National Wildlife Federation and West Atlanta Watershed Alliance: The organizations will be kicking off National Volunteer Week at the Urban Forest Festival by cleaning up the Cascades Springs Nature Preserve, a 135-acre preserve and one of the largest old forests inside Atlanta’s city limits. The cleanup is part of the Clean Earth Challenge, a nationwide effort hosted by the National Wildlife Federation and Johnson Outdoors with a goal of collecting 4 million pieces of trash, litter, and waste across the country during National Volunteer Week.
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Spring grilling tips with Traeger
With the weather warming up, it's time to break out the grill, and the experts at Traeger have some creative ideas to make everyone at the barbecue jealous. BBQ experts and pitmasters Wes Clark and Chad Ward show Alex Whittler how people can turn up the heat and make some delicious dishes this summer.
Spring grilling with Traeger: Elevate Your BBQ Game! . BBQ experts and pitmasters Wes Clark and Chad Ward give grilling tips and talk about a BBQ event and classes at Intown Ace Hardware in Decatur next Wednesday and Thursday. Click here for the Master BBQ class. Click here for the Surf & Turf class.
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Music powerhouses unite for Queens of R&B Tour
R&B's biggest girl groups will be gracing the stage and touring cities across the country for a special tour. 702's LeMisha Fields and Kameelah Williams sat down with Sharon Lawson to talk about performing with Xscape and SWV, life after the death of Irish Grinstead, and much more.
702 talks The Queens of R&B Tour and more: The hit 90s group will hit the stage with SWV and Xscape. The ladies will also be back in Vegas for the Lovers and Friends Festival.
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Sustainable practices for your garden
Earth Day is coming up, so it's a good time to brush up on ways you can use your garden to protect the planet. The experts at Pike Nurseries give a rundown on growing your own food without harming the environment.
Pike Nurseries gives tips on Earth Day sustainability and growing your own Food: To find a Pike Nursery near you, click here.
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Veda Howard's 'Wisdom Nugget' on kindness
Praise 102.5's Veda Howard gets Good Day ready for the weekend with one of her inspirational 'Wisdom Nuggets' on how kindness is key.
Wisdom Nuggets with Veda Howard: "Your smile is your logo. Your personality is your business card, and the way you make others feel is your trademark." Every weekend on her Praise 102.5 show, which airs Saturday and Sunday from 3 to 7p.m., Veda shares Wisdom Nuggets. A Wisdom Nugget is an inspiring or encouraging quote from Veda, business moguls, bumper stickers and everywhere in between; accompanied by scripture.