In this E-Letter:
Update - Where to Recycle your Plastic Bags
Update - HTO/MarBorg Styrofoam Recycling Restart
Summerland Oil Well Capping Confirmed for Treadwell, Construction to Start September 2020
Please Pack Out Your Trash!
UPDATE: MORE PLACES TO RECYCLE
PLASTIC BAGS
Let's do our part to keep this from happening...Photo by As You Sow
Heal the Ocean recently put out a notice that plastic bags are again being collected at certain stores for recycling, and we’ve received a great response from supporters wanting to help. We have also learned of additional locations where plastic bags can be recycled, added here:
Vons Grocery Store at 1040 Coast Village Road, Montecito, CA 93108 (Bag bin located outside the store)
Ralphs Grocery Store at 5170 Hollister Ave. Goleta, 93117 (Bag bin located outside the store)
Albertsons Grocery Store at 5801 Calle Real, Goleta, 93117 (Bag bin located outside the store)
Update: Ablitt’s Fine Cleaners - 14 W. Gutierrez St., Santa Barbara, 93101 - has updated its film plastic recycling program during COVID. Please e-mail Ablitt’s at sales@ablitts.com to be put on their Recycling Invitation List and you will be contacted for a time to come in with your recyclables. If you have Facebook access, you can check the Ablitt's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Ablitts/ then email sales@ablitt.com to reserve your spot. (Note: apologies to our supporters for previous, incorrect information).
Ablitt’s takes almost everything – film plastics, bubble wrap, deflated air pillows, bread & product wrappers (clean), and other items– but because of COVID, they require the sorting to be right, which means supervision at the recycling site. Remember to park across the street on Gutierrez and walk to the recycling area behind the cleaning establishment.
ALSO: Both the Community Environmental Council and Santa Barbara Channelkeeper are accepting film plastics by appointment at their respective offices. They, too, require an appointment, to ensure that the film plastic is clean and non-contaminated.
Please e-mail or call to schedule an appointment in advance:
Community Environmental Council (CEC):
Please call Kathi King at 805-689-2075 or email kking@cecmail.org if you want to schedule a drop-off.
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper:
Please email Penny@sbck.org if you would like to schedule a drop-off.
STYROFOAM RECYCLING
PICKS UP AGAIN AUGUST 3
Styrofoam action at David Love Place. Photo by Harry Rabin/On the Wave Productions
There’s also an update on styrofoam recycling. Because of COVID, MarBorg Industries had to temporarily close off the recycling of Styrofoam, too. On August 3 (next week!), both MarBorg facilities – Nopalitos (in lower Milpas area) and David Love Place in Goleta – will be accepting Styrofoam for recycling. At both locations, there will be workers on hand to help in the collecting. MarBorg wants to ensure that what is going into their bins is clean and recyclable and that other items, like garbage, are not mixed in to spoil the whole batch. Please take care, everybody!
IT’S CONFIRMED – THE NEXT SUMMERLAND OIL CAPPING WILL INCLUDE TREADWELL OFFSHORE
The next oil well capping in Summerland is postponed until September – but for good reason. The previously approved wells to be capped were all on the beach and had gone through the required CEQA process. The State Lands Commission had yet to go through the CEQA process to include TREADWELL #10, and we think it was after all our yelling and shouting that Treadwell should be included in the capping plans that SLC accomplished the required CEQA documentation. Treadwell has been the Big Nasty for years, and HTO is thrilled that it is going to be tackled – now in September. We thank HTO Advisory Board member Harry Rabin of On the Wave Productions for pushing this through!
LAST BUT NOT LEAST,
PLEASE PACK OUT YOUR TRASH
The Radis Gals at Santa Claus Lane on Sunday, July 26, 2020, after a round of trash collecting.
Whether it’s a sense of despair, or the world-is-going-upside-down-so-who-cares, there is still trash being thrown around ever so much more than before the COVID pandemic started. Our great Advisory Board Member “trash queen” Maire Radis reports from Santa Claus Lane, Carpinteria, that her weekly pickup was much less, but they picked up “a lot of trash” on the road and the beach. Maire says, “It’s nothing we can’t handle,” but she should not have to handle anything. Please, everyone, respect your earth, your neighbors, your environment, and yourself, and please don’t litter. Thank you!