Wednesday December 18, a rescheduled trip to the Material Recovery Facility (Recycling) in Yonkers will occur.
This excursion will feature a tour of Westchester County government’s major recycling center whose education center is newly updated; the tour includes an observation tower to view machinery that separates, sorts and prepares material to be sold to third-party manufacturers, and the tipping floor where truckloads of recyclables are dropped off; a presentation and video on the benefits of recycling; and the Recycled Material Art Gallery which features works by local artists made from recycled or reused materials, except for hand-painted murals on environmental themes.
The MRF is closed to the public except for pre-scheduled group tours such as ours.
This trip is jointly sponsored by the Trips and Recycling Committees. Residents who signed up for the cancelled Oct 30 trip have priority.
Sign-up for the trip will, as usual, take place in the Trips Book located in the Activities Alcove.