{"id":864,"date":"2011-01-07T17:08:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T22:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=864"},"modified":"2021-11-20T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T18:49:08","slug":"recycling-results-for-school-and-town-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/recycling-results-for-school-and-town-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling results for school and town buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May of 2009, Annual Town Meeting approved a capital request to acquire a “packer truck” to allow the collection of both recycling and waste from all the Town’s buildings, including the schools. Green Needham members had been following this effort and supporting it.<\/p>\n

The truck was acquired and pickup began in the summer of 2009. All buildings went to a single-stream recycling<\/strong> system, allowing all<\/span> recyclables – paper, cardboard, plastic and metal cans – to be placed in one recycling container.<\/p>\n

The first year’s results (July 2009 – June 2010) are in. Here’s how our schools did:
\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Building<\/th>Recycling<\/th>Trash<\/th>% Recycled<\/th>Total Waste<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
High Rock School<\/td>19,245<\/td>29,000<\/td>40%<\/td>48,245<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pollard School<\/td>22,250<\/td>44,050<\/td>34%<\/td>66,300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
High School<\/td>24,150<\/td>55,300<\/td>30%<\/td>79,450<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hillside School<\/td>7,750<\/td>23,950<\/td>24%<\/td>31,700<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Eliot School<\/td>8,100<\/td>27,030<\/td>23%<\/td>35,130<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mitchell School<\/td>6,810<\/td>26,200<\/td>21%<\/td>33,010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Broadmeadow School<\/td>6,750<\/td>28,500<\/td>19%<\/td>35,250<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Newman School<\/td>7,900<\/td>41,250<\/td>16%<\/td>49,150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/p>\n

Since the schools have cafeterias, they have a different recycling profile than that of Town buildings, which are primarily offices (the DPW, however, is both an office building and a garage facility). Here’s how our municipal buildings did:
\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Building<\/th>Recycling<\/th>Trash<\/th>% Recycled<\/th>Total Waste<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Town Hall<\/td>9,900<\/td>5,850<\/td>63%<\/td>15,750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Library<\/td>9,150<\/td>7,550<\/td>55%<\/td>16,700<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Emery Grover<\/td>4,000<\/td>3,750<\/td>52%<\/td>7,750<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Department of Public Works<\/td>5,450<\/td>13,850<\/td>28%<\/td>19,300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Highway Barrels<\/td>0<\/td>24,900<\/td>0%<\/td>24,900<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Parks Barrels<\/td>0<\/td>23,000<\/td>0%<\/td>23,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/p>\n

Now that we know how we’re doing, perhaps we should have a competition to see which school (and which municipal building) can improve its numbers most?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. <\/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":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-municipal","category-reduce-reuse-recycle","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","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=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}