The El Dorado Nature Center will host a New Year, New Use Recycling Drive this Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to raise money for local nonprofit Food Finders to support their food distribution sites in Long Beach.
Residents can help by collecting eligible California Redemption Value (CRV) items such as bottles, cans, boxes and pouches made of aluminum, glass, plastic and bi-metals and bring the items to the El Dorado Nature Center (7550 E. Spring St.) on Friday. Items can be brought in garbage bags, cardboard boxes or reusable tote bags.
Items collected during the drive will be recycled at a CalRecycle facility, and money generated will be donated through the CRV CONNX program to Food Finders Inc. During the drive, community members will also have an opportunity to learn from CRV CONNX recycling ambassadors about proper recycling habits in an effort to enhance recycling compliance, and El Dorado Nature Center staff will offer education-based activities for participants.
This event is hosted in partnership with Long Beach’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Marine and Retail Marketing Services Inc.’s CRV CONNX community recycling program. The recycling drive will take place in the parking lot near the Opossum Patch picnic site. Parking fees will be waived for participants of the recycling drive.
“This is a great opportunity for community members to donate those leftover CRV cans and bottles from their holiday celebrations, and in turn, help people who are facing food insecurity in our city,” said Mayor Rex Richardson in a public statement. “We encourage folks to start the new year off right by contributing to the recycling drive and supporting a good cause.”
The New Year, New Use Recycling drive is funded by a CalRecycle workforce development grant received by RMS, Inc. RMS, Inc. is a California corporation owned by the California Grocers Association and operating as a certified collection program that has been providing services to retail operators, municipalities and other businesses for over 30 years.
