{"id":4361,"date":"2015-02-14T12:22:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?page_id=4361"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T23:48:03","slug":"rc-y","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/recyclopedia\/rc-y\/","title":{"rendered":"rc-y"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Yard Waste<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.needhamma.gov\/index.aspx?NID=262\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RTS Needham<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Needham residents with an RTS sticker may bring yard waste to the Needham RTS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needhamma.gov\/index.aspx?NID=3088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yard Waste Processing Area<\/a>. Leaves, grass clippings and other rakeable items are kept separate from brush and branches.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Yoga Mats<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Yoga mats are difficult to recycle, and Green Needham knows of no current recycling program. The RTS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.needhamma.gov\/3111\/Re-Use-It-Swap-Shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuse-It Swap-Shop<\/a> accepts used yoga mats if they are completely CLEAN. You can also ask your yoga studio if they know of donation opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Or try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freecycle.org\/town\/NeedhamMA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Needham Freecycle<\/a>, where you can offer goods for free, or request goods for free. Another possibility is <span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xi81zsa\" dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/240988509812919\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Upcycle Needham Facebook Group<\/a> (formerly Buy Nothing Needham) &#8211;\u00a0 Give, receive, lend, share, and show gratitude in hyper-local gift economies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gaiam.com offers ideas on how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gaiam.com\/blogs\/discover\/50-ways-to-reuse-your-yoga-or-fitness-mat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">50 ways to reuse yoga mats<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yard Waste RTS Needham Needham residents with an RTS sticker may bring yard waste to the Needham RTS Yard Waste Processing Area. Leaves, grass clippings and other rakeable items are kept separate from brush and branches. Yoga Mats Yoga mats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"parent":2944,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4361","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19908,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4361\/revisions\/19908"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}