The VBCD is proud to serve our community! Our Resource Recovery Program offers recycling and safe hazardous waste disposal. Together, we conserve valuable materials and protect our land and water.
We continue to bring services to our community and expand our impact. This year, we made tire recycling easier and closer to wherever you are. Now, there are more year-round tire recycling drop-off sites across the County. We partnered with our townships and brought $650,000 in infrastructure improvements and service expansion through grants and partnerships. Whether you know them as “transfer stations” or “drop-off centers”, we’re bringing more services and better infrastructure closer to where you live.
From year-round services to one-day collections, we’re able to bring you these services through funding and people power. The VBCD Programs Millage, County and municipal contributions, and grants fund the program. Our volunteers, partners, vendors, and staff come together to put it to practice. Thank you to our volunteers and partners for helping us make all of this possible! And thank you for participating! You, and your neighbors made a huge difference with small actions.
Check out what we accomplished in a single year together!
💡 26,382 lbs, of household hazardous waste (HHW) safely disposed
🎨 6,860 lbs. of oil-based paint safely disposed
📺 83,910 lbs. of electronics recycled
🛞 13,149 tires recycled
🪫 ~1,200 lbs. of batteries recycled
📦 825 lbs. of foam (Styrofoam™/polystyrene) recycled
🚜 Over 500 agriculture pesticide containers safely disposed and recycled
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Thank you, Van Buren County, for yet another year of local action and monumental impacts.
Materials Management Program Manager Kalli Marshall
ResourceRecovery@VanBurenCD.org
269-633-9314
