Mailing Address:

Ecology Action of Texas
PO Box 1927
Austin, TX  78767

Phone: 512-322-0000

 

 

 

 

 

420 Kemp Street
Austin, TX, 78741
United States

512-322-0000

At Ecology Action of Texas, our mission is to educate and empower people to create a healthier environment. 

Ecology Action has been at the forefront of waste diversion and conservation efforts since it's founding in 1969, from creating Austin's first recycling program, to our current work of recycling the landfill itself! In 2015 we closed our downtown recycling center to focus our efforts at Circle Acres, where we are transforming a former landfill into a nature preserve to be enjoyed by all. Through tours, events, volunteer days, summer camps, and field trips, we engage our community in landfill diversion and remediation, towards a vision of a zero waste world.

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Tour of Circle Acres with STAR (open to the public)

Tour Circle Acres with STAR Central Texas - open to all, STAR membership meeting to follow.

Circle acres is located on roughly 9.7 acres in the Montopolis neighborhood of south east Austin.  As a former landfill and brownfield, the site has suffered through a pattern of destructive uses but nonetheless bears a striking range of forest wetland, and grassland environments within an overwhelmingly urban context.

We will take a tour of Circle Acres and learn about Ecology Action. During the tour we will learn about the history of the site and transforming an old landfill, the history of Ecology Action, the new focus areas in the post-drop-off-center world, and what we can expect in the future at Circle Acres. 

***After tour membership meeting is at Sawyers & Co, 4827 E Cesar Chavez St, Austin, TX 78702 ***

Visitors can park on Kemp and should not attempt to drive on to the site. There's a big concrete EA next to the driveway, walk down the hill and keep left.  There will be someone waiting for you at the entrance and a sign.

STAR Central Texas (a group of public sector, private sector and non-profit individuals and organizations who work together to further efforts to reduce, reuse, recycle, compost and buy recycled in Central Texas). 

More information and registration here : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/star-central-texas-meeting-and-circle-acres-tour-tickets-24493485675

Earlier Event: July 31
Volunteer Morning at Circle Acres
Later Event: August 13
Tree Identification walk with TreeFolks