East Hampton Hosts “Recycling Awareness Month” Events

East Hampton has designated the month of October as “Recycling Awareness Month,” and members of the town’s recycling and litter committee and the highway and sanitation departments are asking residents to participate in a cardboard drive and a tour tomorrow of the town’s recycling center in Springs.

The recycling and litter committee is hoping to encourage residents, businesses and schools to increase their rates of recycling and generate revenue through the sale of recycleables.

Tomorrow, Oct. 24, at 1 p.m., the sanitation department and litter committee are leading tours of the recycling center at 260 Springs-Fireplace Road. They’re asking attendees to reserve their spot by emailing Deb Klughers at Keepinitgreen@optonline.net or at 631.377.1943.

Tour participants are asked to wear closed toe shoes and and dress for an awesome outdoor activity. The tours will take about an hour, and will be guided by the town’s recycling recycling experts.

Between Oct. 25 and Oct. 31, the town is asking residents, businesses, schools and everyone else to participate in their “Call for Cardboard” by dropping off clean, flattened corrugated cardboard at the old composting building at the Springs recycling center between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

There will not be a fee to enter the facility to drop off cardboard, which is a commodity that is currently in great demand and will generate revenue for the town.

As the litter committee says, “money does grow on trees.”