More News About ATHC

Friday, June 17th - 4 person best ball tourney with shotgun start at 1:00 p.m.

All golfing abilities are welcome! Unlimited use of driving range, held at the Crow River Golf Course, golf with cart, lunch, refreshments and free raffle entry.

Read our flyer to learn more about this fun event, silent auction, raffle, and more.

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The Adult Training and Habilitation Center Has gently used clothing, household items, toy books, furniture and more!

Proceeds from our store employ adults with disabilities. Donations are welcome!

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Year round Recycling & Special Waste facility!

• Appliances
• Recyclables
• Electronics
• FREE Re-Use Room!

Read More to learn about what materials we accept, products we sell, hours, directions and locations!

In 2009 the Adult Training and Habilitation Center again partnered with the Recycling Association of Minnesota on Recycle Your Holidays™. The program developed by the Recycling Association of Minnesota and test piloted with ATHC in the summer of 2009, was officially launched in the fall of 2009.

Recycle Your Holidays™ has provided employment to 60 individuals at ATHC since November 1st of 2009. Based on the number of pounds collected and the pace at which the employees at the Adult Training and Habilitation Center can break down the lights, these 60 individuals will continue to be employed until November of 2010. Just in time for the next season of lights to arrive.

The Recycle Your Holidays™ Program resulted in 100,000 pounds of light strands collected statewide during the 2009-2010 season at 175 separate locations. The Adult Training and Habilitation Center collection efforts resulted in 75,000 pounds of the 100,000 pounds collected. Based on calculations provided by the Clean Energy Resource Team, the anticipated energy savings per year will amount to 1,551,481.80 kWh/year and the CO(2) reductions amount to 2,735,782 pounds per year. This is a result of the energy savings from the removal of the bulb (.4) watts each and the energy saved through the capture of the copper wire from the lights through recycling rather than extracting copper through mining.

The 75,000 pounds of lights recycled through ATHC will result in the green house gas savings of 2,051,837 pounds of CO(2) equal to removing 178 vehicles from the road for a year.

The success of the 2009-2010 Recycle your Holidays Program was the result of the successful collaboration of the Recycling Association of Minnesota, WCCO, Xcel Energy, Clean Energy Resource Team, Snyders, Green Lights Recycling and Kirchbaum & Krutch.

• Read this article Posted on the WCCO website!
• Watch this video of a related story on the WCCO news!
• View a map showing where you can drop off your lights!

The Adult Training and Habilitation Center is cleaning up the Holidays by recycling Christmas lights! This article from the Hutchinson Leader print edition tells how.

• Read this article in PDF format!

A new program at Adult Training and Habilitation Center is cleaning up the environment, creating new jobs, and even making a little money. Read this article published in the Hutchinson Leader on February 8th of 2008.

ATHC Recycles at the state fair!

Watch this video that features portions of a news reports done by channel 4 news, Fox News and interviews with various people supporting the program including Coke who participated as a major sponsor!

• Watch the Video!