Burbank Recycle Center to celebrate America Recycles Day

Nov. 10, 2015 5:37 PM PT

The Burbank Recycle Center will celebrate America Recycles Day with an event that’s open to the public on Sunday.

There will be food trucks offering a “zero-waste lunch,” as well as a movie, a talk on the future of recycling, craft activities and games at the event, which is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Residents can sign up for a tour of the recycle center, located at 500 S. Flower St., or to attend a free composting workshop. The workshop will run from 1:45 to 3:15 p.m., and Burbank residents will be able to pick up a free compost bin.

Space on the tour is limited. For more information about the event or to sign up for a spot on the tour or compost workshop, visit the event page on the city’s website here.

Chad Garland, chad.garland@latimes.com

Twitter: @chadgarland

Chad Garland

Chad Garland covered the city of Burbank and Bob Hope Airport for the Burbank Leader until 2016. Previously, he has covered Arizona’s congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., for Cronkite News Service and Oregon’s Legislature for the Associated Press. His work investigating questionable veterans’ charities as part of the award-winning News21 national investigative project “Back Home” earned a “Best in Business” award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2013. Before becoming a reporter, he spent more than a decade in various assignments related to national defense. An Illinois native, his first California address was at Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego. He has degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Arizona State University, as well as a diploma from the Army’s Defense Language Institute in Monterey, where he learned to speak Russian.