The sun is out, it's warm, the birds are chirping - what more could you ask for on Earth Day!
Well, there is one thing. The Rail Trail (old railroad tracks in Delmar) needs some serious cleaning up. Please join us today and bring along the neighborhood kids!
Rail Trail Clean
Up Wed 4/22 @
4PM
Meet behind American Legion - back
right of parking lot
Kate Kloss - Principal, Dan Rain, Harriet Jaffe, Mike Klugman and I (Leslie Trosset), have put together some fun green activities at Elsmere School in honor of Earth Day, Wed. April 22nd.
We've planned a variety of week-long activities and guest speakers, including:
New Capri Sun, Kool-Aid, Honest Tea Drink Pouch recycling program that earns Elsmere's PTA 2 cents per pouch collected. Checkout www.terracycle.net.
Lunch trash daily weigh-in. We'll weigh the lunch trash everyday and see if through recycling, not wasting food, and using re-usable containers will help reduce waste.
Planting a strawberry bed with Dan Rain.
Green "Spirit" Day - wear green, eco-friendly shirts, organic shirts, earth shirts, etc.
A visit from Enviroman - our very own Middle School Asst. Principal Mark Warford will speak about the environment.
A visit from a wildlife rehabilitator.
A visit from Cornell's 4H who will bring their energy bike - pedal to see how much energy it takes to light a regular lightbulb vs. a Compact Florescent (CFL).
A visit from Sharon Fisher - our town's recycling coordinator, who will discuss recycling.
On Thursday, April 2, 2009, I video'd Sharon Fisher - Town of Bethlehem Recycling Coordinator as she shared information on recycling and discard of unwanted items, including old applicances, metals, paper, glass, cans, and the all confusing plastic. The Rupert Road Transfer station is for town residents only.
The biggest lesson learned for me was on the subject of plastic recycling. The town of Bethlehem ONLY accepts plastic BOTTLES 1 & 2. You have to reuse or toss all of your plastic food containers, even if they are labeled with a #1 or #2!
The town of Bethlehem can only recycle #1 & #2 BOTTLES:
juice
water
vitamin water
milk
any 1 & 2 bottle with a neck
Toss or reuse these containers:
butter
sour cream
peanut butter
berry containers
cooked meat trays
deli containers
any other container, even if it is labeled as a 1 or 2
Pre-1980 the Rupert Road facility was used as a landfill for municpipal trash and you'll see the large mound in the video. Around 1980, they were no longer allowed to accept the trash but they kept the facility open to accept items such as: tires, electronic items, old TV's, microwaves, refridgerators, paper, metals, plastics, cans, furniture and more.
If you choose not to pay a hauler, you can bring your regular trash there for a smaller fee and they will transfer it to the Albany Landfill where some of our haulers bring the trash they pickup curbside.
For more recycling details, please visit the town's web site, call Sharon Fisher - Recycling Coordinator at the town at 439-4955 ext. 1510, or leave a comment below.
