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Huntington residents celebrated Earth Day Sunday, learning about bees, shredding paper, composting, and participating in a variety of other activities for adults and children alike. Earth Day, established in 1970, has become a global event, with festivals, tree plantings, awareness of animals, health and Read More …
Banks, schools and Post Offices are closed Monday for the celebration of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. And trash pickup for some residents is postponed. For those residents whose trash is picked up Mondays and Thursdays, collection is scheduled for Thursday only, though Read More …
Recycling plans get recycled starting this week. In recent years, Huntington residents were able to toss a mix of paper, plastic and glass into one recycling bin for weekly pickup. Download the calendar But because of a collapse in the global recycling market, meaning mixed Read More …
Huntington residents will return to dual-stream recycling in January because of the collapse of the global recycling market. The Town Board will vote on the change at its meeting Dec. 18. Dual stream means the return to alternating pickup weeks, with bottles, cans and plastics Read More …
The Town of Huntington is continuing with single-stream recycling until the end of the year, relying on Omni Westbury for the next few weeks. Huntington, along with other towns, lost access to single-stream recycling when Brookhaven shut down operations Oct.29 after Green Stream Recycling announced Read More …
The Town of Huntington is preparing to change its recycling program because of a significant global decline in the value recycled materials. It could mean the end of single-stream recycling, and a shift back to the need to separate plastics and paper trash. Huntington will Read More …
Fun turning things into other things. I found this suitcase in a thrift shop a few weeks ago and fell in love. I wasn’t sure what exactly to do with it, but on impulse, I had to have it. By chance, I also needed a Read More …
Did you know you can recycle your textiles, including shoes? My running shoes have been through a half marathon, several 10Ks, and lots of training in between. They’re so worn out, that I can stick my fingers through the holes. I definitely can’t donate these Read More …
There is no scheduled trash collection on Monday in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. Residents who normally have their trash collected on Monday will have their trash collected on Tuesday and Thursday this week. Residents who normally have their trash collected on Tuesday will have their trash collected Read More …