{"id":66981,"date":"2016-04-06T15:13:52","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T19:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66981"},"modified":"2016-04-05T22:24:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T02:24:59","slug":"66981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66981","title":{"rendered":"Solid Waste to host Styrofoam Recycling Extravanza"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nell Ziegler of Peterboro brings a load of Styrofoam for recycling.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Department of Solid Waste will be celebrating Earth Day April 22 with a Styrofoam\u00a0Recycling Extravaganza. During this special Earth Day event, running from April 22 through 30, residents can bring Styrofoam to any residential transfer station in Madison County\u00a0during regular business hours for those stations.<\/p>\n

This special Earth Day collection of Styrofoam is part of a six-month pilot project started by the Solid Waste Department in December 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have collected 1,205 pounds of\u00a0Styrofoam for recycling in the past three months just at one transfer station,” said Recycling Coordinator Mary Bartlett. “Considering the fact that Styrofoam is extremely light yet incredibly bulky, this is a huge amount. Having this collection at all the transfer stations will make recycling\u00a0Styrofoam more convenient for residents throughout Madison County.\u201d<\/p>\n

Residential transfer stations collecting Styrofoam include the main landfill transfer station on\u00a0Buyea Road, Cazenovia Transfer Station on Constine Bridge Road, Hamilton Transfer Station on\u00a0Cranston Road and Sullivan Transfer Station on Bolivar Road in Chittenango.<\/p>\n

Residents wishing to recycle their expanded polystyrene\u00a0foam #6 – commonly called\u00a0\u2018Styrofoam\u2019 – should bring it in clear plastic bags with all tape and labels removed.\u00a0Acceptable Styrofoam must be WHITE and clean with all tape and labels removed. Items can\u00a0include packaging foam and clean egg cartons, foam cups (rinsed) and clean take-out containers.<\/p>\n

Packing peanuts, soiled containers, colored Styrofoam and packing made of\u00a0materials other than Styrofoam will not be accepted.<\/p>\n

It takes 50 years for EPS foam to break down, but since polystyrene is not biodegradable, it\u00a0never really leaves the environment. \u201cThat\u2019s why we have been working diligently to find a<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why we have been working diligently to find a\u00a0practical way to recycle Styrofoam,\u201d said James Zecca, director of the Department of Solid Waste and Recycling. “EPS foam breaks into small pieces, and like plastic will cause problems in the digestive tracks of\u00a0animals unlucky enough to ingest it. Foam is lightweight, yet bulky, especially packaging foam\u00a0and takes up a lot of space in our landfills. Styrofoam is quite valuable when properly prepared for recycling, yet difficult since it needs to\u00a0be densified for shipping to a qualified recycler.\u201d<\/p>\n

The county has an outlet for Styrofoam for the six months the pilot is underway. In June 2016, Solid Waste staff will decide the future of Styrofoam recycling in Madison\u00a0County.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to see how much there is in the waste stream and whether it makes sense to\u00a0invest in a densifier of our own,” Bartlett said.<\/p>\n

For more information, call Bartlett at 800.721.2208.<\/p>\n

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The Department of Solid Waste will be celebrating Earth Day April 22 with a Styrofoam\u00a0Recycling Extravaganza. During this special Earth Day event, running from April 22 through 30, residents can bring Styrofoam to any residential transfer station in Madison County\u00a0during regular business hours for those stations. This special Earth Day collection of Styrofoam is part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23679,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agfarming","category-local","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s43meu-66981","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/styrofoam-nell-ziegler-peterboro.jpg?fit=240%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}