Keep Moore County Beautiful, Inc. is sponsoring a mixed paper recycling drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at the Kangaroo Station in the Fresh Market Shopping Center, Southern Pines.

Acceptable items include anything that is paper -- paper grocery bags, flattened boxes, telephone books, junk mail, magazines, catalogs, flattened corrugated cardboard, office paper, and newspapers.

Also accepted are any type of household batteries and inkjet, laser, and cell phones.

"Please place masking tape or any nonconductive tape on terminal ends of all batteries," says Joan Neal, executive director of Keep Moore County Beautiful.

For additional information, contact Neal at 947-3478 or by e-mail at jneal@moorecountync.gov.