Whitney Houston told us long ago that children are our future. We couldn’t agree more! We’re launching our newly designed lesson plans for our county’s children in Kindergarten - 8th grade.

We asked our community to recycle holiday lights in January, and boy, did you deliver!

Heather Elson of No More Liddering, Inc. didn’t set out to become an artist, but her love for our environment and a passion for educating our community made her one.

Growing up in a suburb of Washington D.C., Dajawn Williams’ family culture didn’t include much accessibility to nature. But in high school, he had the good luck of registering for an advanced placement course in Environmental Science

How does a reluctant recycler and avid consumer turn into a supporter of My Green Earth? As it turns out, even a serial user of single-use plastics can change her ways.

One of MGE’s core programs is our School Recycling Program. With six schools now participating, we’re helping make change every day in how students view our earth and establish habits to better care for it. Tritt Elementary School in East Cobb is one of our newest partners!

We all own items that we bought to use once and then store in garages and closets, sometimes never to be used again: extra tall ladders to clean the gutters, knee scooters to move us around while a broken ankle heals…

Round Trip Brewing Co. is a new tenant at the Avenue East Cobb, building community through a hip new space and fantastic, locally-brewed German-inspired beers. Join us on Oct. 17 at 6 p.m. at the Roswell Rd. location.

Ripple Glass is making waves in Atlanta! This Kansas City-based company expanded into Metro Atlanta in 2023, dedicated to giving glass a second life and saving it from the landfill. Its signature purple bins can be found at 34 locations across the region, including seven locations in Cobb County already.

Have unused costumes and accessories? Looking for a new costume without having to spend on a new one you'll only wear once? Join us for our Costume Swap where we will be giving away costumes for all ages, from kids through adults.

All people should have equal access to protect themselves from environmental hazards, and should have equal access to clean air, natural greenspaces, and fresh food. Unfortunately in our county and all across the United States, there is an unequal distribution of environmental benefits and burdens. Environmental equity seeks to address this inequality so that all individuals have equal access to a clean and healthy environment.

This holiday season, we have partnered with The Space Shop Self Storage to provide convenient drop-off locations throughout Cobb County for broken holiday lights. Bring your lights to us and we will recycle them for you, for free!

The holidays present many opportunities to practice the 5-R’s: Refuse, Reduce, Repair, Reuse, and Recycle. Be sure to wrap your gifts in planet-friendly ways this holiday season by practicing the 5-R’s for wrapping!

Solarize Cobb Bulk-Purchase Solar Campaign to Launch with Community Launch Party on Aug. 31. Solarize Cobb is a new community-based solar campaign making solar energy and battery storage more affordable to participants through group purchasing within Cobb County.

Mountain View Elementary, thanks to the generous support of their PTA, launched a classroom recycling program last school year, diverting 7,278 pounds from the landfill. That's equivalent to removing 5 cars from the road for an entire year!

As the world's attention shifts towards a sustainable future, residential rooftop solar installations have become increasingly popular. The remarkable advancement of solar technology, coupled with declining costs, has made harnessing the power of the sun more accessible than ever before.

It’s often said that, "They just take the recyclables to the dump," when referring to waste hauling companies that offer curbside recycling. That can unfortunately be true, but not for the reason people think.