How You Can Go Green

Purchase food from Grand Prairie Farmers Market, open Saturdays 8 a.m.-1 p.m. April through December at Market Square, 120 W. Main Street, Grand Prairie TX 75050.

Participate in Keep Grand Prairie Beautiful programs that help keep our environment clean and protected. 

• Participate in the curbside recycling program.
• Learn how to harvest rainwater.
• Follow city guidelines when disposing of household hazardous waste and prescription drugs.
• Use the Recycling Resource Guide for help on knowing where to recycle special items. 

• Clear pet waste.
• Learn the right way to fertilize your lawn.
• Learn how to protect Grand Prairie's waterways.
• Become a Master Composter.
• Follow the "Don't Bag It" lawn care plan.

• Carpool to work (consider using the Park and Ride located off I-30 and Belt Line Road in Grand Prairie).
• Make sure your Grand Prairie workplace is signed up to participate in the curbside recycling for commercial bag customers.
• Replace standard light bulbs with compact fluorescent light bulbs, recycle toner cartridges and printer paper, set printer settings to double-sided when appropriate, print draft documents on scratch paper.

• Carpool when possible.
• Purchase a full smart car.
• Inflate car tires to right pressure.
• Change your air filter.
• Turn off your engine rather than allowing your vehicle to idle.
• Use cruise control.
• Wash your car at commercial car washes that recycle water.
• Don't top off your gas tank.

• Keep Grand Prairie Beautiful programs
• Report Illegal Dumping - Have you witnessed illegal dumping in the City of Grand Prairie or know of a location where illegal dumping has occurred? Please
  call the Illegal Dumping Hotline at 972-237-8064 or visit the City's Code Enforcement page.
• Environmental Collection Center - Go to the ECC to drop off your household hazardous waste (HHW) if you can't make it to our HHW events.
• City of Grand Prairie Environmental Services Department - For more information on environmental-related volunteer opportunities, check out the Environmental Services Web page. 

• Don't Mess With Texas
• North Central Texas Council of Governments
• Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
• Texas SmartScape
• Time to Recycle
• Junior Master Gardner 

• Environmental Protection Agency
• Environmental Protection Agency - Students