Needham is in its fourth year of single-stream recycling in schools and town buildings.<\/p>\n
How are we doing? Not as well as we could be.<\/p>\n
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 expect the first year would be low as people get used to a new system. More disappointing is that during that same period, the amount of trash increased<\/strong> 40%.<\/p>\n There were some bright spots, however:<\/p>\n Here are the the results for fiscal year 2012 (July 2011 – June 2012) for our schools: And here are the results for non-school buildings: 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[17,292,20],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-municipal","category-reduce-reuse-recycle","category-schools","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n\t \nBuilding<\/th> Recycling<\/th> Trash<\/th> % Recycled<\/th> Total Waste<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n\t Hillside School<\/td> 9,300<\/td> 26,500<\/td> 26%<\/td> 35,800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Broadmeadow School<\/td> 10,300<\/td> 36,250<\/td> 22%<\/td> 46,500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Mitchell School<\/td> 9,000<\/td> 31,100<\/td> 22%<\/td> 40,100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t High School<\/td> 20,200<\/td> 78,150<\/td> 21%<\/td> 98,350<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t High Rock School<\/td> 8,500<\/td> 41,970<\/td> 17%<\/td> 50,470<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Eliot School<\/td> 7,600<\/td> 33,200<\/td> 19%<\/td> 40,800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Pollard School<\/td> 15,650<\/td> 65,450<\/td> 19%<\/td> 81,100<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Newman School<\/td> 6,800<\/td> 48,000<\/td> 12%<\/td> 54,800<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\t \nBuilding<\/th> Recycling<\/th> Trash<\/th> % Recycled<\/th> Total Waste<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n \n\t Emery Grover<\/td> 6,000<\/td> 3,550<\/td> 63%<\/td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Library<\/td> 14,400<\/td> 10,700<\/td> 57%<\/td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Town Hall<\/td> 9,750<\/td> 12500<\/td> 44%<\/td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Department of Public Works<\/td> 6,000<\/td> 15,500<\/td> 28%<\/td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Highway Barrels<\/td> 0<\/td> 41,350<\/td> 0%<\/td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n\t Parks Barrels<\/td> 0<\/td> 47,750<\/td> 0%<\/td> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"