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The Recreation Committee is updating their 5-year Recreation Plan and is asking for your thoughts on the development of parks and recreational opportunities for the residents and visitors of Eagle Harbor Township. Your feedback helps guide the Township in making decisions regarding its recreational lands, their uses and amenities.
It's easy to have your say via the survey! You can:
Download it in PDF here and email a completed copy to office@eagleharbortwp.org
Pick up a hard copy at the Township Hall and drop it off when you're finished
Send a request to supervisor@eagleharbortwp.org to mail a hard copy to your postal address
The survey will be available through the first week in August.
**Glass Recycling Ended in Keweenaw and Houghton Counties**
On February 10, 2025, the Copper Country Recycling Initiative announced that glass is no longer accepted in single stream recycling anywhere in Houghton or Keweenaw Counties. The Marquette sorting facility that processes the recycling has been landfilling the glass they’ve received and does not have any options for it to be processed and recycled. After lengthy debates, the Copper Country Recycling Initiative and local officials agreed that glass should no longer be included in our single stream recycling in the counties.
So what should you do with your glass?
1. Be sure any glass with a deposit on it is being redeemed. Glass containers redeemed for deposit are collected separately and shipped to a recycling facility.
2. If you are headed to Marquette, separated glass can be dropped off free of charge at Recycle 906 (Visit recycle906.com or call 906-249-4125 for hours and address), where the glass is crushed, sold, and used for landscaping uses similar to sand/gravel.
3. Put your glass in the trash. While this is less than ideal, glass is an inert material that will not break down and create methane gas as compostable products do when landfilled.
There are plenty of ways you can still reduce your waste and environmental footprint. If you want to make the most impact make sure you are continuing to recycle all your other materials which have strong markets and are being recycled into new products, be aware of packaging on purchased items, start a backyard compost and encourage local officials to support improvements to the local recycling system.
For more information, please consult the links below from the Copper Country Recycling Initiative:
Ditch Your Tick-Loving Barberry at KISMA Trade-Up Day in Eagle Harbor!
Got barberry? Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) is an invasive species commonly sold as a landscaping shrub. These shrubs spread from gardens into our forests and provide the perfect habitat for ticks!
Don’t allow your property to be a source of these forest invaders. Dig up the barberry plants from your yard (roots and all) and bring them to KISMA’s Barberry Trade-Up Day from 10 am to noon on Saturday, July 12, at the Eagle Harbor Solid Waste Facility. KISMA will provide free disposal and $10 coupons to use at local participating nurseries to purchase native replacement shrubs (limit 1 coupon per household).
For native alternatives to barberry, check out https://www.mtu.edu/kisma/native-alternatives/.
For more information, contact KISMA at kisma.up@gmail.com.
Read more about barberry, how it encourages ticks, and other dates and locations for disposal here.