GP NEWS

Please be advised that effective immediately Grand Palms will no longer have courier services daily. Moving forward please do not bring your maintenance checks to the management office to be sent to our corporate office. We recommend at this time you either mail your payments in with the envelopes you receive with your coupons, or you make take advantage of setting up your account with ACH (for those communities that offer it), you may also want to contact your bank and have them set it up on auto pay. We are working on setting up a Fed Ex account for once a week that will have items go to our corporate office in Miami, however, if your checks are put in the box this may delay the posting time, and we want to avoid late payments being posted to your account. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, however, going with the times and corporations going paperless, Miami Management implemented this new procedure.

Beginning January 2, 2022, all residential trash and recycling materials collected from singlefamily residences by Waste Pro will be sent to the Wheelabrator South Broward Waste-toEnergy facility located on SR7/441 where it will be converted into electricity by incineration. By Florida statute, the incineration of refuse materials to make energy is considered recycling. This transition is the result of changes in the global recycling market and contamination issues. In the global arena, the U.S. no longer can sell recycling to China. Costs have risen three times from what they were when recycling began due to low, and in some cases, no demand in the global marketplace for materials such as glass and plastics #3 through #7, combined with the low value of mixed paper and high rates of contamination. If the recycling is contaminated with waste, the contaminated recyclables end up in the landfill. It is estimated that between 10% and 40% of the recyclable materials collected in Pembroke Pines are contaminated,








