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Styrofoam Recycling Begins At ReUse Center

CLARVOE NAMESAKE AT WORK Styrofoam Recycling Begins At ReUse Center By JENNIFER HILL • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com ONEONTA – Martha is here, and she’s going to make Otsego County cleaner. Named for “avid recycler” Martha Clarvoe, an active OCCA committee member and former president,  Martha – the machine – is the new polystyrene recycler, just installed at ARC Otsego’s ReUse Center. “It takes 30 pounds of Styrofoam and condenses that into a four-foot cube,” Bill Hardy, the ReUse Center’s Manager,…

Cooperstown Bat Uses Wood Twice – For Its Product, And To Heat Plant

Cooperstown Bat Uses Wood Twice – For Its Product, And To Heat Plant   By LIBBY CUDMORE • AllOTSEGO Waste not, want not is how Tim and Connie Haney see it. “We’ve paid for the wood,” said Connie. “We might as well use it.” The owners of the Cooperstown Bat Company will tell two-thirds of the wood used in making their custom bats gets turned into sawdust. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be useful. After two brutally cold winters…