MOORPARK : State Aid Sought to Promote Recycling

With its curbside recycling program scheduled to begin in 60 days, Moorpark has asked the state for more than $12,000 to help promote the program.

The grant would help pay for brochures in English and Spanish and graphic artwork for illiterate residents.

Posters for city businesses, door-hangers and a semiannual newsletter also would be used in the campaign.

“With publicity, we could do a good job of reaching every segment of the community,” Assistant City Manager Susan Cauldwell said. “If the residents are not continuously reminded to keep doing this, you’ll see a slip in participation rates.”

Meanwhile, Moorpark’s Environmental Coalition, a group of about 30 volunteers, will hold a recycling collection day Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the parking lot at the Community Center, 799 Moorpark Ave.

The group, which has sponsored collection days every three months since April, might discontinue its program if curbside recycling proves successful, organizer Mary Horton-Wozniak said.

“People are not doing a lot because its not convenient. They want convenience,” she said.

With curbside recycling more families will participate, she said.

Saturday, the coalition will accept colored and clear glass, clean aluminum and tin cans, plastic bottles and some newspapers, Horton-Wozniak said.