The City of Sugar Land and Keep Sugar Land Beautiful are hosting a variety of activities for the second annual Environmental Week April 13-19.
Throughout Environmental Week, the city and Keep Sugar Land Beautiful will sponsor a Single Member Council District Recycling Challenge, encouraging residents to recycle curbside on their designated recycling day in order to determine which city council district has the highest percentage of residential curbside recycling participants.
The winning district will be recognized at the April 21 city council meeting.
In addition, the city and KSLB are also hosting the Recycled Plastic Art Challenge, a program designed to utilize post-consumer recyclables for the design and construction of animal sculptures.
Two local school groups – The Green Team at The Honor Roll School and Fort Settlement Teen Leadership – will design and construct sculptures for display in city hall during Environmental Week.
The participating organizations will also be recognized at the April 21 city council meeting.
The City of Sugar Land and KSLB have again partnered with PCD Management to host an “Environmental Movie Under the Moon” in Town Square on Friday, April 17 at 8 p.m. Prior to the movie, the city and KSLB will provide popcorn to the moviegoers.
Residents can vote for their movie selection on the Town Square website.
Sugar Land’s annual Earth Day Recycling Event will take place Saturday, April 18, from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., at the University of Houston Sugar Land campus parking lot. Items accepted include household electronic equipment, clothing and household items for reuse, used eyeglasses, documents for shredding, plastics (#1-7, excluding Styrofoam) and aluminum cans.
There are limits on accepted items and charges may apply.
The Environmental Week activities will conclude with the Eco-Car Show, a collection of environmentally-friendly automobiles from several local car dealerships. The car show will take place at Oyster Creek Park on Saturday, April 19 from 3-6 p.m.
In conjunction with the Eco-Car Show, the city is also hosting the first of Sugar Land’s 2009 Concert in the Park series.
