Recycle Your Candy Wrappers!

More than 600 million pounds of candy are purchased each year for Halloween. This year you don’t have to trash those candy wrappers and doom them to an eternity in a landfill—or, even worse, in our oceans.

Thanks to the Trick or Trash program-You can recycle your candy wrappers! Find designated candy wrapper recycling bins in five Laingsburg locations! -The Greater Laingsburg Community Recycling Center -The Laingsburg Dairy Den -Laingsburg Elementary School Office -Laingsburg Middle School Office -Laingsburg High School Office Collect and recycle your candy wrappers in designated Trick or Trash boxes.

GLCRC Grand Opening/Ribbon Cutting

GLR will be hosting a community open house for the Greater Laingsburg Community Recycling Center's Grand Opening! Help us celebrate this exciting and important addition to our community. Stop by for a tour, live music, and refreshments. Date: Sunday, April 24, 2022 Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm (ribbon cutting ceremony at 3:00pm) Place: 7500 Woodbury Rd., Laingsburg, MI 48848

We are looking forward to celebrating with you!

Earth Day 2022 Poster Contest

Poster Contest now extended to 4/18/2022!

Calling all student artists and crafty types!

The Greater Laingsburg Recyclers are hosting a poster making contest this spring to bring awareness to Earth Day.

The competition is open to any student who wants to participate and GLR welcomes submissions created by any artistic means. All submissions will be displayed in Laingsburg and may be reproduced.

Submissions are due April 18, 2022 and should be sent to recyclelaingsburg@gmail.com or dropped off at the Laingsburg Library or Laingsburg City Hall.

A panel of Laingsburg community members will select a first, second and third place winner from the elementary, middle school and high school groups. The winners will receive a $25, $15 and $10 Dairy Den gift card respectively.

Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally.

GLR is excited to host its first poster making contest to celebrate Earth Day with Laingsburg and surrounding communities.