<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Geoff Dunn <<a href="mailto:gdunn@tompkins-co.org">gdunn@tompkins-co.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Food Scrap Recycling Drop Spot Opens in Dryden</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">July 31, 2014 4:13:31 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu">tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Geoff Dunn <<a href="mailto:gdunn@tompkins-co.org">gdunn@tompkins-co.org</a>><br></span></div><br>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt Segoe UI; MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><!--?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--><o:p><font face="Calibri"> </font></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Food Scrap Recycling Drop Spot Opens in Dryden<o:p></o:p></i></b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">(Ithaca, NY) </span></b><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">The Tompkins County Solid Waste Division – in partnership with the Town and Village of Dryden – is pleased to announce the opening of a food scrap recycling drop spot at the Dryden Town Highway Department.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">The new drop spot will be open every Saturday beginning August 2, 2014 from 9:00am to Noon. The free service will allow residents to expand their recycling options and reduce their trash disposal costs.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">The material collected each week will be taken to Cayuga Compost in Trumansburg for processing, with the resulting compost marketed to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>landscapers, homeowners, and organizations as a soil amendment. <o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">In 2013, the Solid Waste Division began offering free kitchen caddies, transportation containers and compostable bags to encourage residents to participate in food scraps recycling. The program is seen as playing a significant role in meeting the County’s goal of 75% waste diversion by 2016. <o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">Drop spots are also located at the Recycling and Solid Waste Center in Ithaca and at Cayuga Compost on Agard Road.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">“The opening of the Dryden drop spot – as well as two more this fall – will make it as convenient as possible for residents, no matter where they live in the County, to recycle their food scraps for free,” said Solid Waste Division Manager Barbara Eckstrom. “We also make it easy by providing users with everything they need.”<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">Each drop spot will be staffed to answer questions and provide written materials. Residents will also find a supply of replacement compostable bags, as well as caddies and transportation containers for users new to the program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">The Dryden Town Highway Department is located at 61 E. Main Street (Route 392). Follow the signs to the drop spot location.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%"><font face="Calibri">For more information on food scraps recycling, visit <a href="http://www.recycletompkins.org">www.recycletompkins.org</a>.<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><span style="WORD-WRAP: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: normal">
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<div><em><strong>Geoff Dunn</strong></em></div>
<div><em>Communications and Administrative Coord.</em></div>
<div><em>TC Solid Waste Management Division</em></div>
<div><em>122 Commercial Avenue</em></div>
<div><em>Ithaca, NY 14850</em></div>
<div><em>(607)273-6632</em></div></span>
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