<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><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 Drop Spot Opens in Lansing Saturday</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;">October 23, 2014 12:51:18 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 Lansing<o:p></o:p></i></b></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="Calibri"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%">The Tompkins County Solid Waste Division – in partnership with the Village of Lansing – is pleased to announce the opening of a food scrap recycling drop spot at 2405 North Triphammer Road.<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 behind the Lansing village office will be open every Saturday beginning October 25th from 10:00am to 1:00pm. 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 farmers, landscapers and homeowners 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">The Solid Waste Division offers free kitchen caddies, transport 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">Food Scrap Recycling Drop Spots are also located at the Recycling and Solid Waste Center in Ithaca, at Cayuga Compost on Agard Road, at the Dryden Town Highway Department (Saturdays only) and at Cornell Cooperative Extension on Willow Avenue in Ithaca (Sundays only).<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">Staff will be on hand each week at the drop spot to answer questions and provide written material about the benefits of food scrap recycling. 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><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 </font><a href="http://www.recycletompkins.org/"><font color="#0000ff" face="Calibri">www.recycletompkins.org</font></a><font face="Calibri">.<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"><span style="mso-tab-count: 5"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>###<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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