Take-It-Or-Leave-It reopening Nov. 10 with a new look

(Oct. 28, 2021) With two weeks left till the long-awaited reopening of the Take-It-Or-Go away-It on the Madaket landfill, city officers wish to be clear the return goes to look rather a lot totally different than the longstanding dropoff web site.

“Whereas Take-It-Or-Go away-It’s actually vital to our neighborhood, it’s not as sustainable because it may very well be,” mentioned Graeme Durovich, the city’s recycling and solid-waste coordinator. “We will’t see Take-It-Or-Go away-It as an answer to our tradition of extreme buying and creating untimely waste choices. We’re creating greater than we will sustainably use on the island.”

When it reopens Wednesday, Nov. 10, the brand new set-up shall be staffed by two-full time and one part-time Division of Public Works workers employed particularly to handle the power. It has been shuttered behind a locked chainlink fence for the reason that starting of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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