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
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
How are we doing in recycling at our schools and our municipal buildings? See the results from the first year of the single-stream recycling program.
In 2009 Olin College decided to initiate a composting program to see if it could reduce its waste stream. This fall, Olin has already composted more than all of last year and is on pace to compost over 9,000 lbs by the end of the academic year.
[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
I’ve been diligently saving my plastic bags (from loaves of bread, the newspaper, etc) for recycling, only to find that though the Needham dump collects plastic bags, they do not actually recycle them. Bags are collected in a separate container so they don’t blow all over the neighborhood and require an heroic cleanup effort. But …read more
With its first update since 1982 on the horizon, an expanded Massachusetts Bottle Bill is ready for Senate vote, promising to increase recycling success in the Commonwealth if passed.
Needham only recycles #1,2, and 3 plastics. I hate throwing away my yogurt containers and was happy to discover that Dedham’s new Whole Foods Market is participating in the “Gimme5″ program. The first time I brought my #5′s, I didn’t see any containers specifically labeled for #5 plastics, but the last time I was there, …read more
Water. Last month we had too much, and basements flooded. Last week we had too little and much of the Boston area had to boil their water in the wake of the pipe failure. How do you use water in your home? Do you empty your water glasses, or the kids’ water bottles into the …read more
At the Needham RTS, keep your eyes open for big new signs painted by Mitchell Families! The signs remind residents what can be recycled, and are part of a partnership between the RTS and Mitchell School to help increase recycling all over town.
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