City of Columbus, GA KCB Earth Notes, 9 Jan 2020

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From YouTube: KCB (Earth Notes) 01 09 2020

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Keep Columbus Beautiful presents in this episode showing how we can safely dispose grease and prescription drugs.

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Hello welcome to keep Columbus beautiful earth notes. I, am your host Shar Nate Johnson, the executive director for keep Columbus beautiful? We have some exciting things for today's show and I can't wait till you guys hear from our special guests how you can continue to do your part and keeping Columbus beautiful.

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So Before we jump in today's show. We want to share with you guys in case you don't know what kcb exactly is keep Columbus beautiful is all about helping you keep your community clean, so make sure you check out this short clip to explain you. What keep Columbus beautiful does keep Columbus beautiful is all about keeping your environment clean. You want to make sure you're adopting programs like recycling and reusing household items. We want to make sure you're educated on what we recycle and what can be reused.

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We have programs such as help the hootch and organizational cleanups, where you can get into your community and make sure you're living in a litter free area. I'm.

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Skip Fenderson mayor of Columbus, Georgia and I'd like to invite you and your organization to take part in our community call to prayer, Day procession and the dream lives. Dr. Martin, Luther, King, jr. celebration join us on January, 18 2020. The call to prayer procession will begin at 11:00 a.m. on First Avenue between ninth Street and 10th. Following the procession please come and enjoy the day's events at the Columbus Convention and Trade Center. If you need more information, contact, Becca Covington at the information on your stage so.

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Today, we're going to share with you guys one of these special events that we have in the community where we partner with Columbus waterworks and the Muscogee County Sheriff's Department, but before we jump into our special guests, I want to say thank you to everyone who participated in our past recycling campaigns, the shoe recycling and the Christmas tree. Without you guys's help. It would not have been such a great success. So today our special guest is for our drug and pharmaceutical drug pharmaceuticals and grease recycling.

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We have Sargent hat away from the Muscogee County Sheriff's Department, and he's going to talk to us a little bit about that campaign. So welcome to earth notes. Thank.

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You for having me Sean awesome.

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So if you can tell us a little bit about your involvement and how long you've been with the grease and recycling, grease and pharmaceuticals, recycling sure.

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Muskoka County Sheriff's Office partners with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and also with the Columbus waterworks. We do quarterly drug take-back in the ant's. This event, that for Saturday, is going to be a dual pharmaceutical, take back and a household kitchen grease.

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We take any kind of unwanted unused drugs or any kind of pharmaceuticals that you have around the house and get them properly disposed of. Awesome.

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Well, do you know how important it is just for the community to make sure they're coming out and bringing those drugs to this disposal? Can you tell us about how important it is to make sure they are disposed properly? Sure.

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It's part of the initiative for the the national crisis on the opioid addiction. That's one of the the main factors that the push with the DEA is pushing it nationally. Also any kind of improperly disposed drugs can end up in our water systems can end up. You know you know pets getting all of it or you know, even if it's not the the actual narcotics or opioids some of these drugs or over-the-counter prescriptions can have adverse effects of ingesting improperly so.

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You mentioned in getting into our water stream. Can you talk a little bit more about how important it is? I know some people sometimes flush their medication, so we want.

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Some people are not aware, and they and I've had people telling me that some of the take-back events that they do flush them down the toilet system and that's one. We partner with the Columbus water works because the filtration systems, you know, do not always get everything, there's a bunch of different drugs that are that are purchased by the consumers every day and when they're processed the room or water filtration systems here in Columbus.

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That's very important, like you said, a lot of people aren't aware of why they should recycle their own medication. So, throughout the year you also mention, there's a locations that they can come and drop off. Those look medications throughout the year sure.

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We do have to drop-off locations Monday through Friday ones, going to be located at 110th Street at the the government Center. On the fourth floor near the sheriff's office, it's open Monday through Friday, there's also one at the citizens service center in the lobby area. That's open, Monday through Friday for drug drop-off.

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That's in conjunction with the quarterly events we have here, good.

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So we have this one coming up. Well, we have the one we partner with Columbus waterworks, it's Saturday, the 11th and.

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Can make sure that you come out to the different locations they had and we'll have one at Sidney Simon's Boulevard, and we also had one at the Columbus waterworks customer service parking lot. So we just really important to know that you have events throughout the year as such as the one you just mentioned. So if you want to talk a little bit more about that, one sure.

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We'll have two locations that will be taking I, think it's 14, the Columbus water work, location, 1412, Veterans Parkway, and at 5300 Sidney Simon's Boulevard will have deputies and personnel from the Columbus work. What works working together to collect these unwanted unused prescription items will be the out there from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday. The 11th so will will be happy look forward to seeing you there.

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So the one you mentioned that happened, you said kind of with conjunction with another one, the National one sure.

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One happens: how often that.

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Happens by annually there are two and they're, usually around April and I. Think October are those two national take-back events we're we partner with the Drug Enforcement Administration and that's a national take-back event, so everywhere across the nation law enforcement agencies will be collecting those unused, unwanted prescription, medications. Awesome.

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Well, we thank you for letting us know this important information today. I was really helpful to know that there's other ways to dispose of that medication and also your household grease. So we want to thank you sergeant. How do we for joining us today? My.

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Pleasure thank.

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You well when we come back, you guys we're gonna talk a little bit about an important fact. You might not have known about Columbus and another way you can help, keep it beautiful hello.

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I'm skip Henderson the mayor of Columbus. Did you know that litter has a negative impact on our community? Join me in becoming a leader against litter? Together we can create a cleaner, safer and more beautiful Columbus Georgia, hello.

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I am Mimi Woodson. Did you know that litter has a negative impact in our community? Join me in becoming a leader against letter. Together we can create a cleaner, safer and more beautiful Columbus, hello.

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I'm William Kent I'm, a manager at Columbus waterworks, but I'm. Also, president of keep coming for, did you know that litter has a negative being packed on our community join me and becoming a leader against litter? Together we can create a safer and more beautiful. Columbus did.

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You guys actually know that Columbus is one of Georgia's longest-running tree cities, and we have a way to celebrate that here in Columbus, through our Arbor Day celebration held in February, so we'll definitely have a festival where you'll learn about nature, ways to keep the earth preserved and even animal nature creations that go along with trees. So we want to make sure we're keeping our canopy here in Columbus as well as possible.

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So we'll talk to you more about details for that event on the next episode of earth notes, but here today that is all we have for you on today's show. We hope that you get involved with the community and making sure you keep Columbus Beautiful. By doing your part, don't litter I hope we not to catch you throwing anything out of your window, so kept us here all next time here on earth notes. Thank you for joining us.