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Cairo’s recycling center reopens

Feb 13, 2023 12:55 am

Andrea Macko reports for Porcupine Soup that Cairo’s recycling center reopened this week after being shut down for two years. Town officials closed the recycling center in October, 2020 after they said there was too much trash at the facility. But then, “A number of people in Cairo asked to have it come back,” claims Greene County Legislator Harry Lennon of Cairo. So now the facility has new containers and fencing, and is staffed by a town employee as the fifth recycling center in Greene County. Lennon said, “People have to be very careful to bring in only recyclable materials. No garbage at all. That was the problem we had last time, and we don’t want to have to take the containers out again.” Read more about this story in Porcupine Soup.