Our Mission: Educating ourselves, other residents, caregivers and staff on the processes and benefits of recycling. We work to keep materials that can be transformed into useful objects out of landfills and other trash depositories.
Meetings: We meet monthly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 11a.m. in the TNC Media Center. As of March, 2026, the committee is now a Resident Advisory Council (RAC) standing committee. The committee currently consists of eight resident members and two staff members from the General Services Department. If you would like to join the Committee, visit the RAC Join Committees page.
Activities:
- Development, distribution, and updating of flyers describing items that can be recycled. (Latest Recycle Flyer)
- Online information about where and how to recycle at Riderwood (RiderwoodLife.com Recycling Guidelines).
- Support for Riderwood’s Electronic Recycling Collections.
- Support for Riderwoood’s Food Scrap Drop-off Program.
- Presentation/demonstration at Earth Day celebration.
- Informative articles in the REPORTER (June, 2025, September, 2025)
- Yearly accounting of the volume of materials recycled at Riderwood (2024 Recycling Totals, 2025 Recycling Totals).
Online Resources:
How to Compost at Riderwood — Riderwood TV, January 3, 2024
How to Recycle at Riderwood — Riderwood TV, June 23, 2023 (old, incorrect now).
A Recycle Room Tour – 2010 — From the Riderwood Village Facebook page
Elkridge Recycling Facility Video — See the inner workings of our Recycling Facility. Here’s a WUSA9 News Report about it’s grand opening.
Photos from the Recycling Committee visit to the WM Elkridge Recycling Facility, May, 2025. CLICK/TAP on an image to view it full screen and scroll through the rest.
