Saturday, January 14, 2012

Seeking Eco-minded Visitors to Wellfleet: Your Opinion Is Solicited

This pond is beautiful, no doubt about that. It's Long Pond, in Wellfleet, eastern end. No trash in view, thank goodness. Our town is fortunate to have a very active Recycling Committee, chaired by Lydia Vivante. Lydia has asked me to ask you a few questions today. She is holding a meeting next week to encourage seasonal renters and other assorted folks visiting Cape Cod to use the Transfer Station during their stay by recycling and composting whenever possible. How do you feel about these activities during vacation? Are you willing to make a few extra gestures on behalf of the environment? Would you like landlords and real estate agents to post friendly reminders? Have you seen any such signs? Do you bring your totes with you or use those provided at the rental? If you want your answers to be confidential, write Lydia, c/o Town Hall. Otherwise, please share ideas on how to improve recycling and composting in Wellfleet below. Thanks!
Posted by Alexandra Grabbe at 6:30 AM
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Sharyn · 689 weeks ago

Yes, I would want to do everything the way I do at home. I use fabric shopping bags and recycle everything.
I think all most visitors need is the opportunity to do so, signs , recycling bins, totes etc.
Though I could be wrong. When we walk down our road we carry a bag to pick up the garbage thrown out car windows. So some people will never get the message.
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janet · 689 weeks ago

I haven't seen Wellfleet's transfer station, but ours in Eastham has fabulous recycling facilities. For residents it's easy to recycle, and the dump sticker is well worth its price. I can't imagine a seasonal renter buying a dump sticker, although most of them buy beach stickers. If landlords and real estate agents make it easy to recycle, I think most folks will cooperate. If visitors recycle at home they will continue recycling on vacation if they know how it's done here. Both towns need to empty beach trash cans much more often. Recycling bins on beaches are hard to find. It's especially disheartening to see trash spilling out of over-filled trash containers, and blowing down the beach to the ocean on busy beach days. It would be great if more of that trash was carried home, further away from the beaches. I wonder how we could encourage that...
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connie · 689 weeks ago

Although I might not be coming there til 2013- I am a person who sometimes goes on holiday- and here in Washington I've visited B&B's which require recycling and I love dong it. The only thing I would request is that there be available containers placed strategically for such purposes- in Singapore when they had the campaign to clean up the island state, one of the main thing they did was to make containers available so people had no excuse for NOT throwing things in the correct container.
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amywellfleet · 689 weeks ago

We recycyle everything we can, as at home. Our cottage community arranges to have recycling materials picked up so we have no need to go to the transfer station.
It would be great if there were bins for recycling, for example, at the beaches so that those who go to the beach can dispose of recyclable materials. Otherwise, I fear that most people just throw everything--papers, bottles, cans--- into the general trash barrels.

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