Politics & Government
San Carlos Recycling Facility Gears up for Grand Opening
Mayor, other public officials and community leaders expected to speak at "California's greenest recycling center and transfer station" opening on Tuesday.
A joint powers association made up of 12 Peninsula agencies in San Mateo County will hold a formal grand opening for a new San Carlos facility that it’s calling “California’s greenest recycling center and transfer station.”
The event commemorates the opening of the Shoreway Environmental Center on 333 Shoreway Road.
San Carlos Mayor Andy Klein and CalRecycle Acting Director Mark Leary will speak at the event, which will be held on Sept. 27 from 12 to 3 p.m.
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An Environmental Education Center will also be unveiled at the event.
Recology San Mateo County staffers will wear “Haute Trash” recycled fashion.
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Other public officials and community leaders are expected to attend the event, which is not open to the public, RethinkWaste spokeswoman Monica Devincenzi said.
The 12 member agencies that make up RethinkWaster are Atherton, Belmont, Burlingame, East Palo Alto, Foster City, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Carlos, San Mateo, the County of San Mateo and the West Bay Sanitary District.
The site’s opening culminates two years of construction and planning that began five years ago, Devincenzi said.
“It’s a facility that we believe the whole community can really be proud of because we’re supplying great opportunities to recycle compost and keep waste out of the landfills and meet the environmental goals that our member agencies have,” Devincenzi said.
