FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 8, 2010
EOC's Local Conservation Corps Celebrates 1st Anniversary of Friant Buyback Recycling Center

- Center provides recycling opportunity to community & job training to at-risk young adults -

(FRESNO, CA) Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission’s (EOC) Local Conservation Corps (LCC) proudly invites members of the media to its Friant Buyback Recycling Center Anniversary Barbeque today Friday, October 8, 2010, from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. LCC’s Friant Buyback Recycling Center is located at 17108 N. Friant Road in Friant. Tours of the facility will be available.

The buyback center offers a place for people to sell their empty California Redemption Value (CRV) beverage containers for cash while providing hands-on job training for Corpsmembers in LCC’s Recycling Program. Since opening its doors in October 2009, Friant Buyback Recycling Center has recycled over a quarter of a million CRV containers and given thousands of dollars back to local schools.

“LCC Recycling Program partners with local schools and gives them 100% of the funds generated from the sales of CRV containers collected by each classroom,” explains Marcelino Salazar, LCC Recycling Program Manager. “Teachers and classrooms typically use money from their recycling efforts for anything from field trips to purchasing supplies for the classroom.”

Local Conservation Corps’ Recycling Program offers recycling services at no-cost to businesses, schools, office and apartment complexes, government agencies, and campgrounds generating large volumes of CRV containers; it also provides special event recycling at large scale events throughout the Central Valley. In addition, the program provides cathode ray tube (CRT) and electronic waste (e-waste) recycling.

Local Conservation Corps helps young adults, 18 - 24 years old, work toward their high school diploma or earn college credits while learning job readiness and vocation skills in construction, recycling, and landscape maintenance as well as developing life and leadership skills.

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CONTACT
Yahaira Garcia-Perea
559.263.1024
yahaira.garcia-perea@fresnoeoc.org
About EOC
Our Mission
To humanely focus all available resources to empower low-income families and individuals working toward the skills, knowledge and motivation for self-sufficiency.

About EOC
Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission, known as EOC, was established in 1965 with the goal of obtaining equality of opportunity in education, employment, health and living conditions for those in need in Fresno County. We are widely recognized and are one of the largest nonprofit Community Action Agencies in the United States.

EOC has spent over four decades investing in people, helping them become self-sufficient. The scope of service provided by our Agency consists of almost all facets of human services and economic development. They range from pre-school education to vocational training; from juvenile and drug abuse counseling to treatment for serious juvenile offenders; from youth recreation to senior citizen hot meal services; from energy conservation education to crisis intervention; from preventive health care to prenatal nutrition education; and from vocational counseling to job placement services.