Solid waste

Riverhead Town is conducting a pilot food scrap collection program, with the goals of providing material for composting to local farms and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate change.

The Riverhead Town Board on Tuesday approved a special event permit for the Riverhead Country Fair to be held on Oct. 9. Here's a rundown of actions taken during the April 5 meeting.

Things took place at the town dump many years before the reclamation project got underway — at the direction of some in Town Hall — that surprised town officials years later. And it had nothing to do with aliens or artifacts.

A draft solid waste management plan being considered by the town board calls for increased compliance with existing recycling rules, recycling food wastes and implementing commercial sanitation districts in some areas of town.

Restrictions imposed by China and other Asian countries on imports of recovered materials have thrown recycling programs in U.S. communities into chaos.