REORGANIZATION OF THE RECYCLING COMMITTEE
The Truro Recycling Committee has recently undergone some major changes. Its 20-year chair, Bob Holt, finally succeeded in recruiting two new members to replace him as Co-Chairs: Andy Goyer and Sarah Benjamin. Tippy Scherer became a full member, and Bob took his place as Alternate. Sarah Morrison continues as full member. After Sally Brotman resigned and became vice chair of the Energy Committee, Diane Eib, Chair of the Board of Health, took her place.
Andy Goyer will be familiar to many of us as the popular principal of the Truro Central School for several years before leaving in 1996. At that time, he cooperated with the committee in getting a fine program going, enlisting the students in learning recycling by doing it.
Sarah Benjamin lives in a remarkable house she and her husband filled with recycled, reused, and creatively transformed, found things. Last year, she made a notable contribution to the committee by volunteering to make, entirely out of recycled materials, the amazing garments worn by the “Just Recycled” couple and driver of the committee’s float in the tercentennial parade. They were acquired by the Historical Museum and were on display there for a good many months.
RECYCLE USED CORKS
Truro now collects used corks for recycling! The traditional stoppers of wine and some other kinds of bottles were traditionally made from the bark of the cork oak tree, found in great numbers in Spain and Portugal. This useful organic material is easily shredded and formed into bulletin boards, flooring, and other products. Having found a company in Provincetown that accepts used ones for recycling, Truro now collects them in a market bucket in the used paper shack.
No need to throw them into the trash any more; just bring them to the Transfer Station and drop them into the bucket. Please be careful, however, NOT to put plastic corks there! In recent years, some wines have been stoppered by plastic items that look somewhat like real corks, but have to be recycled with plastics. In case of doubt, don’t put it into the real cork bucket.