2023 Recycling & Bulky Waste Calendar

 Blue Recycling Week

 Green Recycling Week

 City Holiday

For City Holidays, collection will be delayed one day the remainder of the week. Place carts out before 6:00 am the day of collection with wheels facing your home. Please retrieve emptied carts by 9:00 pm that night

Do not block sidewalks with your carts, and be sure to space carts 2 feet apart from one another or any parked cars, mailboxes, etc .

Recycling & Bulky Waste is collected every-other-week on your regularly scheduled garbage day.

If you are a City of Concord resident, recycling roll-out carts are free . Call 704 920 5555

Bulky waste is anything that won’t fit inside or isn’t allowed in your garbage cart, such as furniture, construction and demolition debris, tires, scrap metal (including lawn equipment, bicycles, etc.), electronics and appliances

Cart lids must be able to close completely

Extra bags of trash and recyclables placed outside your cart will not be collected; however, for special occasions such as parties and family reunions, the

City will collect a small number of extra bags All special collections must be scheduled in advance.

Those who consistently have more garbage than the green roll-out cart can hold may call to reserve an extra brown garbage cart for a monthly fee

All cardboard must be flattened and must be placed in your recycling cart . Additional flattened boxes can be collected as a courtesy; however, you must request this service in advance Do not bag your recyclables. Place them in the cart loose.

Register to receive collection schedule changes and other important updates via phone, text, or email at concordnc.gov/whatsmyday

As we look back on all that we accomplished in the last year, we are incredibly grateful for the talented members of Team Concord who have worked hard to provide exceptional service to residents and visitors and continue to make Concord one of the best places to live, work, and play.

Join us in looking back at a few of our 2022 highlights.

JANUARY

For the 22nd year, Concord received the nation’s highest budget award -the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada.

FEBRUARY

HGTV Names

Concord one of America’s Most Charming SmallTown Downtowns.

MARCH

Grand Opening of The Mills at Rocky River, Hector H. Henry Greenway.

Concord Named One of North Carolina’s 20 Safest Cities of 2022.

APRIL

Grand opening of Fire Station 12.

Concord-Padgett Regional Airport Partners with Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace, Becoming First Airport in North Carolina to test Remote Air Traffic Control Towers.

MAY

Naming of the Bruton Smith Boulevard, I-85 bridge the “Jason N. Shuping Memorial Bridge”.

Desmond Miller, Solid Waste Services, Receives the 2022 Jo Atwater Award.

City Earns Statewide Honors for Exceptional Communications and Marketing from the North Carolina City & County Communicators (NC3C) Association.

Concord Electric Systems Earns Municipal Electric Safety Award 2021 for no lost workday cases.

TJ Hurlocker, Concord Electric Systems, competes in NCAMES Lineworker Rodeo and places 2nd in the Obstacle Course and 4th in the Hurt Man Exercise Statewide.

JUNE

Eli Lilly Breaks Ground on Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Campus in Concord, a $1 Billion Investment in the Community.

City Named one of the Healthiest Employers of Greater Charlotte for 6th Consecutive Year by Charlotte Business Journal.

City Breaks Ground on New Downtown Streetscape Project. City’s Fleet Services Department Named 100 Best Fleets in America.

Grand Opening of Afton Run Greenway, Coddle Creek Greenway.

JULY

Concord Police Departments Achieves National Accreditation from CALEA, the Gold Standard in Public Safety.

AUGUST

Camden Ramsey, Assistant Fire Marshal, Concord Fire Department, Receives NC State Firefighters’ Association Firefighter of the Year Award.

NASCAR Productions Facility Groundbreaking Ceremony Kicks Off

Construction of the New Facility, Adjacent to the Existing NASCAR R&D Center.

City’s Finance Department Receives Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting.

September

Tena Mullis, Coddle Creek Water Treatment Plant, Named North Carolina “A-Surface Operator of the Year” – the Highest Achievement for Any Operator in the State.

OCTOBER

Charity Langston, Engineering Department, Receives Standing Ovation Award for Outstanding Leadership and Commitment to Customer Service.

Concord Police Officer Michael Quinn Receives Sid Talbert Award.

City Celebrates Opening of ClearWater Ceramics Center.

Concord Named a Tree City USA for the 3rd Consecutive Year.

Human Resources Department Receives Best in HR for 2022 Award from Charlotte Business Journal.

Finance Department Earns Award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Financial Reporting and the Triple Crown Award. Housing Department receives the Carolina Council of Housing Redevelopment & Codes Officials 2022 Human Service Award for their program “KIDZ HELPING KIDZ SOAR”.

Sonya Bost Receives Presidents Award from Cabarrus County Branch NAACP.

November

City Joins WeBuild Concord to Break Ground on Lincoln Street Townhomes.

Concord Electric Systems Earns Excellence in Communications Award from the American Public Power Association.

Water Resources Department Receives 2022 Area Wide Optimization Program (AWOP) Award for both the Hillgrove & Coddle Creek Water Treatment Plants.

The City of Concord welcomed nearly 1,500 third-graders from across Cabarrus County into our city facilities as we relaunched our in-person Third Grade Civic Education Program following virtual presentations during the COVID-19 pandemic. The city has been offering the civic education program to schools since 2001. The program allows students to learn about the many roles, responsibilities, processes and programs within the city. Students are introduced to local government through a week-long curriculum that combines in-class presentations with a cross-city field trip where students visit locations that are key to the city’s operations, such as our Coddle Creek Water Treatment Plant, Brown Operations Center, City Hall, and Police Department.

During school visits, staff members from the city’s Planning Department, City Manager’s Office, and Finance Department discuss topics such as: What is a city? Who runs the city? What services does the city provide? and Where does the money come from to pay for the services? During the field trip portion of the civic education program, students participate in role play exercises, tour city facilities, and attend demonstrations from more than a dozen departments.

Facilitating these field trips takes months of preparation by city staff, all of whom share