Town of Huntington Brings New Recycling Measures in January

Starting in January, the Town of Huntington will implement two changes regarding recycling.

Residents will no longer have to remember which week is recycling week for cans and bottles and which week is for newspapers and cardboard. And there will be new

All of the recyclables will be collected in a single container on recycling day.

The collected material will be brought to Omni Recycling of Westbury, which has been accepting Huntington’s separated recyclables, and then taken to Green Stream Recycling in Brookhaven, a joint venture between Omni and Winters Brothers Waste Systems. Green Stream screens, separates and processes the waste to be recycled.

“This is going to eliminate the need to build more resource recovery plants and burn more and more of our solid waste, because we have the capacity here if we only recycle sensibly,” Supervisor Frank P. Petrone said.

Called “single-stream” recycling, other municipalities who have instituted the policy have reported increases of 25 to 30 percent in the amount of material recycled.

Additionally, on Jan. 1, a state law takes effect banning electronic waste – televisions, computers, printers and peripherals – from being thrown out with regular garbage. Instead, residents may:

• drop off the e-waste at the Recycling Center, which is open Tuesday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• call 351-3239 for a curbside pickup
• bring e-waste to a participating store (such as Best Buy)
• send it back to the manufacturer

Electronic waste set out for pickup on regular days will not be collected, and a sticker will be placed on the item letting residents know their options.

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