The Nassau County Association for Retarded Citizens is commited to keeping recycling alive and well. The agency provides recycle pickups for over 50 business in the Fernandina and Yulee area. The agency recycles mixed use white and colored office paper, newspaper, cardboard and aluminum cans.

Smurfit-Stone Container partners with the agency to assist in the recycle program. Recycling provides an important service for the community as well as a meaningful work experience for ARC clients.

Individual households and business can also bring recyclables to ARC Nassau. Cardboard, aluminum cans and mixed use paper accepted (no glossy paper or envelopes with see through windows, please).

ARC Nassau pickup schedule:
Monday - Yulee area
Tuesday - Fernandina area
Wednesday - Special pickups

For more information, call ARC Nassau at (904) 225-9355, on US 17 one mile north of A1A.

Keep Nassau Beautiful, Inc. is a non-profit educational and research organization that is focused on improving the community's appearance by educating and involving county residents in efforts and programs such as:

• Recycling Education
• Adopt-A-Highway/-Mile/-Shore/-Spot
• Hosting a variety of community cleanup event
• Community Recognition programs

Currently, Nassau County has over 53 miles of roadway and 7 miles of coastline that adopting volunteers clean regularly. As you can imagine, there is plenty of territory waiting for enterprising groups to adopt.

Keep Nassau Beautiful co-chairs the County's Solid Waste Task Force and is involved in numerous other organizations tasked with improving the quality of life for citizens of Nassau County.

Keep Nassau Beautiful is an affiliate of Keep America Beautiful and Keep Florida Beautiful. As such, we have access to a wide variety of resources to insure continuity and coordination of efforts that build on national and state programs to maximize our local potential.

Todd Duncan, Executive Director
Lynda Moutray, Program Coordinator
493 US17, Suite 3
Yulee, Florida 32041
(904) 548-0162

This Christian-inspired ministry's objective is to attack sub-standard housing by building simple, decent homes for families who cannot afford home ownership otherwise. Volunteer labor and donated funds allow Habitat to sell low-cost homes to qualified families who buy through a no-interest mortgage financed by Nassau HFH. This housing program is supported in part by funds generated through the work of volunteers who collect and sell aluminum beverage cans - cans which would be discarded in trash and become landfill if not saved for recycling and donated to Habitat. There are 55 Habitat collection bins located around eastern Nassau County, many at businesses and condos, but folks are urged to drop off aluminum cans at such stores as Winn Dixie, Wal-Mart, Flash Foods, Harris Teeter. Look for the bins with the colorful logo: Aluminum Cans Build Habitat for Humanity Homes.

During the past three years, the Habitat can recycling program has kept more than 700,000 cans out of the Nassau County landfill. In addition, large energy savings resulted due to the fact that manufacturers of new cans used these old cans in their process rather than energy-intensive new aluminum.

Nassau HFH participated in a national program sponsored by the aluminum industry, aimed at encouraging Habitat affiliates to establish and implement successful can recycling projects. Grants from this program, coupled with income from sales of cans, resulted in Nassau HFH funding construction of a new three-bedroom home in 2001 which Habitat called "The House That Cans Built". More recently, Nassau HFH was one of 15 Habitat affiliates in the US who were awarded a grant to enhance the local can recycling project itself. At the end of 2002, Nassau HFH will be able to apply for a new grant of $50,000 for another "House That Cans Built".

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printer cartridges...from home and office printers

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In addition, Nassau Habitat for Humanity has a program that enables participants to recycle printer cartridges. This program is designed to collect and recycle used, empty cartridges from home and office printers. Instead of discarding these cartridges in the trash, which eventually end up in our landfills, the cartridges can be recycled and provide a return to Nassau Habitat for Humanity. Interested parties can either use pre-addressed, pre-stamped mailers provided by Nassau Habitat for Humanity to mail in used cartridges to the recycling center, or, they may drop off used cartridges at the office located at 516 South 10th Street, Room 203, Fernandina Beach, Fl. 32034.

Call the Nassau Habitat for Humanity office for more information on either the aluminum can or printer cartridge recycling programs.
Nassau Habitat for Humanity 516 South 10th Street
Room 203
Fernandina Beach, Fl. 32034
(904) 277-0600