SUFFOLK TIMES FILE PHOTO | An information session will be held Thursday on the town’s yellow bag policy, which is going back into effect.
Just in time for all your Thanksgiving Day garbage to begin piling up in your backyard, Southold Town is once again requiring carters to only accept garbage that has been placed in the town’s yellow plastic garbage bags.
The bag law will go back into effect Nov. 23, after a 120-day grace period the town instated during its ongoing battle with Go Green Sanitation over Go Green’s insistence that they don’t need to require homeowners to use the yellow bags because Go Green takes the garbage out of town.
But before anyone decides to leave their garbage at the closed doors of the landfill on Thanksgiving morning, Southold Town is planning a public information session tomorrow, Nov. 15, to help residents understand why the town is enforcing the strict law.
Town Supervisor Scott Russell announced last month that the bag law will go back into effect Nov. 23. He said he has been discussing the possibility of not requiring the yellow bags with representatives of the state DEC, who approved the town’s solid waste management plan requiring the yellow bags decades ago.
He said the DEC representatives doubt Southold would receive approval for an alternative waste management plan, since the one requiring the yellow bags has been very successful at ensuring residents recycle.
Tomorrow’s information session will be held at 7 p.m. in the town hall meeting room.
A DEC representative will be on-hand to explain why Southold’s current solid waste management plan must be enforced.