pile of insecticides and spray paint cans ready for proper disposal

Household Hazardous Waste & Electronics Recycling Drop-Off

This Saturday from 8 am until noon, please bring your household hazardous waste and electronic waste to the Department of Public Works (630 NW 2nd Street). The City offers this drop-off event on a Quarterly Basis.

The improper disposal of household hazardous wastes can cause holes in the lining of landfills, thus contaminating the nearby ground and water with hazardous materials. Please make sure you bring them to our drop-off event so they can be disposed of properly to avoid these issues.

The following items will be accepted:

Cleaning chemicals and/or cleaning chemical containers
Used motor oil
Fertilizer
Herbicide
Insecticide
Fuel
Household batteries
Tire (limit 4)
Paint (limit 4 gallons)
Paint thinner
Electronics such as laptops, computers, and appliances.

Get involved and share your ideas!

So far we have heard from our residents that they want fruit trees planted in public right of ways, electric vehicle charging stations, fix-it-fairs to help people learn how to repair goods, net-zero building code, and more beach clean-ups. What would you like the City and our community to do to reduce our carbon emissions and improve our community? Share your ideas, opinions, complaints, etc at www.haveyoursayhallandale.org or click the photo below.

Website screenshot of www.haveyoursayhallandale.org

Coral Reef in background, logos from Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, Broward County, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Friends of our Florida Reefs, and Sierra club

Are you interested in marine science, the environment, or coral reefs? Join us on Monday, December 14 from Noon to 1 pm for a "Florida's Coral Reef Webinar".

For the webinar we will be joined by experts:
Kristi Kerrigan from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection
Joe Unsworth from Rescue a Reef (UM)
Alex Neufeld from the Coral Restoration Foundation; and
Penny Cutt from Friends of Our Florida Reefs.

Join and learn about Florida's coral reefs, the disease impacting our reefs, and work being done as it relates to research, restoration, and citizen science.

Student volunteer hours are available for those who attend and participate. Learn more about this webinar here.

Dunes with sign stating keep off dunes $500 fine

Save the Dates for our Dune Planting Events!

Mark your calendars for some outdoor volunteer events planned for February 6th, 13th, and 20th at South City Beach Park. We will be replanting beach dunes with native plants and are welcoming a maximum of 30 volunteers for each date. If you'd like to attend, please make sure you pre-register here.

City of Hallandale Beach gets a "B" from CDP International

CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states, and regions to manage their environmental impacts. After completing our first Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory this year, we disclosed our emissions and resilience activities to CDP. CDP rates entities on a D- to A scale, similar to grades in school but starting with a "D" for simply disclosing and "A" for exemplary leadership. This grade is based on responses to a lengthy questionnaire. We're happy to announce that in our first year of disclosing, we were given a final score of a "B".

Seats Available on the Sustainability & Flood Mitigation Advisory Board

The Sustainability & Flood Mitigation Advisory Board assists the City Commission to identify and recommend affordable strategies associated with sustainability, climate change, and flood mitigation. This Board works directly with the City's Green Initiatives Coordinator.

Because what we do now impacts future generations, we have designed this Advisory Board to include participation from youths who either live in Hallandale Beach or go to school in Hallandale Beach. There are currently 2 open positions on this Board which are held for individuals who are under the age of 18. There are additional spaces open for adults who wish to get involved and participate!

If you know someone who has a high level of interest in helping move the City in a more sustainable direction, please have them submit an application to join this Board.

The application is available here.

Get a $100 rebate for a watersense low flow toilet

Get in touch or involved with Green Initiatives

If you're interested in learning more about Green Initiatives or if you want to get more involved, please reach out to our Green Initiatives Coordinator Alyssa Jones Wood at ajoneswood@cohb.org and visit cohb.org/green.