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♻️ Ever wonder what happens after you recycle?
Check out the new materials added to the Bordeaux Recycling Roundup collection list. Come and learn how everyday items can be transformed into new products on June 13th!
♻️ Styrofoam: Great news! Nashville Department of Waste Services now offers a FREE Styrofoam recycling program. Bring your clean Styrofoam blocks, coolers, and to-go containers to the East Convenience Center. Visit https://buff.ly/H5gkWnH and learn more!
🎾 Tennis Balls: Recycled tennis balls can be used as horse arena footing, helping create softer and safer riding surfaces. New and used tennis balls are accepted during the event!
🌱 Compost: Did you know that nearly 30% of trash is compostable? Composting food scraps and yard waste helps reduce methane emissions.
🫙 Plastic Bottle & Jar Lids: Don’t toss those caps! These can be used for benches, decking, playground equipment, and other durable construction materials.
👉 Visit https://buff.ly/avHJacV for a complete list of accepted materials.
Questions? Contact us!

🔝 Join the fun at the Bordeaux Recycling Roundup! Drive through and drop off those hard-to-recycle items like Styrofoam, electronics, mattresses, tennis balls, and more!

🗓 Date: Saturday, June 13, 2026
⏰ Time: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Isaiah T. Creswell Middle School of the Arts - 3500 John Mallette Dr, Nashville

Gain hands-on experience! Volunteer to learn the ropes of recycling! Together, we can make a cleaner Nashville 🌟♻️ Register at buff.ly/avHJacV.

This Saturday's Summer Reuse Fest looks amazing!

🌞 SUMMER REUSE FEST 😎

Save the date! Join us June 6, 2026 from 10am-3pm at Turnip Green for our annual arts & sustainability block party, Summer Reuse Fest. This free event will feature reuse makers, vendors, community organizations, and non-profits, as well as all day free sustainable art workshops and activities, community art projects, plant swap + distribution, neighborhood litter pick-up, free kids art kits, and more! 🌻

Get your trees, Nashville!

FREE TREES for Davidson County residents! It’s that time of year again: visit https://rootnashville.org/get-free-trees to order up to 3 large native trees for your yard, courtesy of Root Nashville. This year, Nashvillians can choose from seven different species including tulip poplars, sycamores, serviceberries, and more.

Big and small, flowering and fruiting, they all have a place in our city’s vibrant ecosystem and can bring incredible benefits to your home and neighborhood. Browse the full catalog at https://rootnashville.org/tree-catalog and order yours at https://rootnashville.org/get-free-trees! If you order by August 31, and the Cumberland River Compact Field Team will deliver them this fall or winter.

Root Nashville is a public-private citywide campaign led by Metro Water Services and the Cumberland River Compact. Every tree planted contributes to our campaign goal of adding 500,000 trees to Nashville’s canopy by 2050.

Nashville's Planning Department has launched the Ecological Conservation Strategy (ECS) to create a countywide plan to understand the effects of our growing city on the landscape. It will explore opportunities to protect the environment while still supporting growth.

If you live in Davidson County, make your voice heard by taking the ECS survey by June 12!

Ecological Conservation Strategy - PublicInput Metro Planning has launched the Ecological Conservation Strategy (ECS) to shape a future where Nashville continues to grow and thrive while preserving the landscapes ecosystems and sense of place that makes it unique. This is Nashville s first countywide plan for understanding the effects of recent....

Have you seen bioretention basins like this around Nashville? These Stormwater Control Measures (SCMs) use plants to absorb excess water and filter pollutants while safely draining water away from buildings. General Services has been performing preventative maintenance on the department's SCMs to make sure that they are functioning properly and looking good! 🌱

To learn more about these and other Metro sustainability efforts, visit https://buff.ly/rnKBvZG

Greater Nashville Regional Council will host two virtual public meetings on Tuesday, May 19 (11:30am and 5:30pm) to provide an overview of the region’s ongoing Climate Pollution Reduction Grant planning efforts and gather public input on strategies to improve air quality across Middle Tennessee. You can also take a survey to share your views and preferences on how our region deals with air quality.

Take the survey or join one of the meetings here: https://loom.ly/HQJkoG4

This Saturday is your chance to bike or walk the 3 mile Open Streets route. It's a chance to explore downtown in a new and less car-centric way!

Ready for more people-first, car-free streets in Nashville? We are!

Mark your calendars for Open Streets Downtown on May 16, June 13, and July 11! We’re closing a three-mile loop of downtown streets to cars and inviting Nashville to walk, bike, and explore.

There’s no registration required to participate. Just hop on your bike — or grab a skateboard, roller skates, or a comfy pair of walking shoes — and join us for a citywide block party! We hope you’ll find a new favorite spot in town. Stay tuned for more information on our route, what to do, and much more!

This event is being hosted by Walk Bike Nashville and Nashville Department of Transportation & Multimodal Infrastructure. Learn more about Open Streets at openstreetsnashville.org!


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This is a great opportunity to drop off compost and get a free compost bin at the same time!

📣 Exciting news, West Nashville! In honor of Compost Awareness Week, we’re providing a drop-off compost pop-up at The Good Fill this weekend! We’ll be there on Friday so come chat and grab a voucher for a free Earth Machine Compost Bin to start backyard composting 🌱 You can still come by on Saturday to bring your compost!

Friday: 1pm – 6pm
Saturday: 10am – 6pm

What can you bring:
-Any food scraps 🍉🧀🍔
-Paper products (napkins, paper towels, pizza boxes)
-Compostable plastics labeled BPI Certified Compostable or ASTM D64

Are you interested in hearing different perspectives and ideas about sustainability and resiliency efforts in Nashville?

If so, consider attending the upcoming Sustainability Advisory Committee meeting on May 13th at Howard Office Building. All are welcome!