With another semester behind us, it’s time to update our composting totals. For those of you not familiar with Olin’s composting program, we compost all fruit and vegetable waste during food preparation in Olin’s dining hall. The program is in its 5th year and it is run by staff and student volunteers. Fall 2012 data: …read more
Archive of posts filed under the Recycling category.
Recycling Opportunities at the RTS — More Than You Think!
What do these items have in common: faded curtains, an old stuffed animal, a music CD, a cellphone, and a clean rigid plastic flower pot? These items, and many more, can be taken to the Needham RTS for recycling or reuse. Ann Dorfman, the recently hired RTS supervisor, has put together a new website packed …read more
Recycling results for school and town buildings – 2011-12
Needham is in its fourth year of single-stream recycling in schools and town buildings. How are we doing? Not as well as we could be. The total amount of recycling was about the same in 2011-12 (3rd year) as it was in 2009-10 (the first year), so we haven’t improved. That’s disappointing because you would …read more
Bottled up, again
For nearly fifteen years, Massachusetts legislators and supporters have been trying to pass an expanded bottle bill that would treat all beverage containers similarly, ending the nonsensical distinction between carbonated beverages (subject to the deposit) and non-carbonated beverages (not subject to the deposit). Despite polls showing 77% support from the public and a majority of …read more
Recycling pilot featured on the Needham Channel news
This week’s Needham Channel News included a report on the pilot program for recycling containers in public places. Green Needham and the Interfaith Environmental Network worked with the Department of Public Works, the Park & Recreation Commission and the Trustees of Memorial Park to initiate the program. The program kicked off at the end of …read more
Interfaith Environmental Network fields recycling pilot
Youth sports teams and other users of several DeFazio and Memorial Park fields will soon be able to recycle their containers instead of throwing them away thanks to a recycling pilot led by seven Needham faith organizations. Members of the faith organizations, meeting over the past two years as an Interfaith Environmental Network to share …read more
Downtown Recycling Initiative
Over the last several years, Green Needham has received suggestions that recycling containers should be available in public areas like downtown, the Heights business district and at playing fields. Until this past year, Needham didn’t have any way to service recycling containers. That changed with the beginning of the single stream recycling program for Needham …read more
For a Greener Holiday Season: Think Paper and Packaging!
[Guest blog post by Amy Winslow) Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve, we generate 25 percent more landfill waste than during the rest of the year, and buy enough greeting cards to fill a football stadium 10 stories high!* When doing your gift-wrapping this season, consider how you package things – try buying reusable gift …read more
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