Monroe County Recycling Education Campaign Concludes Public Outreach in Hilton

"Street Team" members canvass the Hilton Apple Festival

The Monroe County Recycling Education Campaign concluded its outreach to area festival-goers at the Hilton Apple Festival. County Executive Maggie Brooks announced that the campaign reached out to nearly 1,600 festival patrons on October 3rd.

“The Recycling Education Campaign continues to teach Monroe County’s residents and festival-goers about which paper items can and cannot be recycled,” said Brooks. “The efforts of our ‘Street Team’ and ‘Promo Bike’ members show that Monroe County is dedicated to recycling and becoming a more sustainable community.”

“Street Teams” and “Promo Bike” riders handed out nearly 10,000 memo-pads made of 100% post-consumer recyclable paper to patrons at the Corn Hill Arts, Park Avenue, Clothesline Arts and Hilton Apple Festivals. The memo-pads remind people that nearly all clean paper can be recycled; including paper-based food boxes, phonebooks, gift wrap and discarded mail. 

Monroe County Executive Brooks launched the revised Recycling Education Campaign last July to encourage residents to recycle up to 10,000 additional tons of paper each year. The program also conveys the message through three separate television spots which air daily on a variety of local and cable stations. 

Click on the link below for a slideshow of the County’s Recycling Education Campaign at the Hilton Apple Festival.