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Fairs set throughout the Keys

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Posted - Saturday, November 08, 2008 06:35 PM EST

During the month of November, Green Living & Energy Education volunteers throughout the Keys are planning cleanups, workshops and fairs to provide the information needed to practice the 4 Rs — Reduce, Reuse, Rot and Recycle.

Electronics recycling at each event will be provided by Recycled PC Parts. Drop off old electronics, including computers, TVs, VCRs, cell phones, old batteries, stereos, radios, clocks, CDs, videotapes and more. For more on items that will be accepted, go to www.KeysGLEE.com.

Here’s a rundown of the events:

Saturday, Nov. 15

  • 9 to 11:30 a.m. — A Recycling Fair will be at the Big Pine Academy, mile marker 30. The event includes a coffee and bake sale, a plant clinic with Monroe County Extension agent Kim Gabel, a worm composting workshop and composter raffle and information on hazardous waste and monofilament disposal. Student art, featuring works created from recycled objects, will be sold to raise funds for the academy. Stations will be set up to teach various ways to apply the 4 Rs, and visitors can test their 4R IQs and receive a reusable Publix shopping bag. Waste Management will be sponsoring a recycling bin giveaway, and Coca-Cola will showcase its hybrid truck. Bring plastic caps, lids and packing peanuts for recycling. Electronics can be dropped off from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call Shirley Gun at 304-8812.

  • 9 a.m. to noon — The Marathon R4 event is at the Marathon Garden Club, mile marker 50. Drop off an electronics item for recycling and receive a $1 discount on admission to Crane Point Museum & Nature Center. Recycle bins and Publix green shopping bags will be given away. The event will continue at 1 p.m. at Crane Point, with a presentation on composting. Admission is free for participants in the hands-on training to create two composting sites. Call Elizabeth Moore at 743-3900.

    Sunday, Nov. 16

  • Noon to 2 p.m. — In Key West, the “We R4 Recycling Fair” offers fun, food and education in the Key West High School courtyard. Participants can play games and win prizes, including a kids’ bike, donated by the Bike Shop. Earth-friendly foods will be served by high school culinary students, and a bake sale will be hosted by the student Green Team of St. Mary Immaculate Star of the Sea. Green films will be shown, and mini-workshops on carpooling, FreeCycle, rainbarrels and more will be presented. Bring a favorite t-shirt to be made into a reusable bag or pillow cover. The Key West High School Alternative Energy Center will offer a demonstration on biodiesel and invites participants to bring used, liquid-only cooking oil to be converted to fuel. Electronics collection is in the front parking lot from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Call Jody Smith-Williams at 304-2064.

    Saturday, Nov. 22

  • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. — The Upper Keys GLEE R4 Fair, co-sponsored by Mariner’s Hospital, will be held at the Key Largo Community Park (mile marker 99.5). Music will be provided by Dave and Nyan Feder, Micah and others. Monroe County Extension Services will provide games with prizes for children, while local schools display recycled/reused art projects and educational booths. Keys Sanitary and Veolia will demonstrate how to recycle properly, and Keys Sanitary will give away 200 recycling bins to Key Largo residents. The Upper Keys Garden Club will demonstrate composting and raffle a composter. All Keys Gutters will show how to do rainwater harvesting using a cistern, and will raffle a cistern. GLEE membership information will be available and bags made by the Keys Quilting Club will be given with each new membership. Publix green bags, as well as information on the Community Garden Project, will be available. Other exhibitors include Island Dolphin Care (recycling your ink cartridges), The Audubon Society (collecting and recycling monofilament), FKAA, Upper Keys Animal Shelter (collecting towels, blankets, pet supplies, and large format newspapers), Florida Keys Heritage Trail, WeeCycle and more. Electronics dropoff will be 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot at the park entrance. Fair volunteers, sponsors and exhibitors can contact Christi Allen at 942-0808.

    The Key Largo Chamber of Commerce has organized a cleanup from 8 a.m. to noon; call 451-4747. There’s also a cleanup of the Whale Harbor Bridge area at 9 a.m.; contact Maria at 853-1685. Volunteers will be served hot dogs by the Key Largo Rotary and FKAA will provide drinking water.

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