community recycling award
brevard county, florida

Brevard County employs a full-time Recycling Coordinator and a Recycling Educator who spend their time educating citizens about the value of recycling.   In 2007, these and other county staff members spoke to more than 10,000 students and adults in the community about recycling.  Free recycling education programs were conducted at county parks, schools, libraries, special environmental fairs, and county home shows. 

To help educate county residents about the recycling program, the county maintains a web site (www.brevardrecycles.org) and an online “Recyclopedia” to answer questions about curbside and drop-off recycling.  Public service announcements about recycling appear on the Space Coast government-access television station and on the Brevard Community College station.  In 2007, Brevard County also received an Innovative Grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to develop advertising inserts for local newspapers.


County recycling efforts benefit from local partnerships with Keep Brevard Beautiful, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the Brevard Zoo, Marine Resources Council, Cocoa Beach Chamber of Commerce, and the League of Women Voters of the Space Coast, as well as the local school system and the county jail.


The county’s largest single paper recycling project is an annual School Phone Book Recycling Contest.  The Talking Phone Book, and AT&T: The Real Yellow Pages, which publish phone directories in the county, sponsor the annual contest where students, teachers, and parents compete in collecting phone books for recycling. More than 50,000 phone books were recycled as a result of the 2007 contest.

 

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