Pleasant Garden Hosts Combined Recycling, Shredding, and Food Drive Event
A Simple Gesture collected nonperishable food alongside county recycling and secure shredding at Pleasant Garden, with glass jars excluded and baby formula specifically on the accepted list.
Guilford County residents who pulled into Pleasant Garden on March 14 could drop off a television, shred five boxes of tax documents, hand over unused prescriptions to a sheriff's deputy, and donate a jar of peanut butter to a food pantry network, all in a single stop.
The Pleasant Garden Community Recycling Event, organized by Guilford County Environmental Services as one of four such events it runs each year, deliberately stacked those services together. A Simple Gesture ran the food drive on-site, collecting nonperishable donations destined for local food pantries across Guilford County. The Guilford County Sheriff's Office hosted a Medication Take-Back station, and county staff handled the hard-to-recycle materials that most curbside programs won't touch.
The food drive accepted a specific range of items: canned tuna, vegetables, beans, fruit, soups, chili, tomato sauce, and 12 oz. baby formula; boxed cereal, oatmeal, and macaroni and cheese; bags of rice and beans; crackers, granola bars, unsweetened applesauce, and 100% juice boxes; Stage 2 baby formula; peanut butter, jelly, and pasta sauce. Glass jars were explicitly excluded from the drive.
On the recycling side, Guilford County accepted appliances including washers, dryers, push mowers, and hot water heaters, provided they contained no fuel. Electronics accepted included computers, televisions, microwaves, video game consoles, electronic toys, and cell phones, though batteries were not accepted alongside them. Tire drop-off was capped at 50 passenger tires or 10 heavy truck tires per vehicle; large equipment tires were turned away. Clean plastic bags and flattened cardboard boxes were accepted, but foam packing peanuts were not. Secure document shredding was available for up to five file boxes per vehicle.
The event was free and open to all Guilford County residents. Business waste was not accepted.
For questions about A Simple Gesture's food drive operations, contact Rebecca Conway at rebecca@asimplegesturegso.org or (336) 458-8173.
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