Welcome Home strives to provide families experiencing hardship with basic household items they need to live with dignity. Located in Newton Centre, the organization collects and redistributes gently used and new household items to dozens of people in need each month … Read More
Newton’s Representative Jake Auchincloss has signed on as a co-sponsor of the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act (H.R. 5845) that was introduced in the United States House of Representatives last year and reintroduced on March 23, 2021. This session’s … Read More
Is tomorrow trash day? Can you put used paper napkins and tissues in the recycling bin? (The answer is no, they go in the trash.) The handy phone app Recycle Right Newton will get you the answers and more. Created … Read More
Recent headlines might leave you believing that recycling is a scam. The good news is that you don’t need to give up on recycling. Guest speakers from Preserve, Rehrig Pacific, and GreenLabs Recycling explain how the industry has come a … Read More
Got older CDs and DVDs that no longer suit your streaming lifestyle? Here are organizations that will find new homes for those shiny disks during the COVID pandemic. Remember, the discs or their cases should not be placed in Newton’s … Read More
Americans consume around 13 billion pounds of paper towels annually—that’s equivalent to throwing out 270 million trees every year. While paper towels generally have a small carbon footprint, collectively they are contributing to deforestation, global warming, and an ever-increasing waste problem. … Read More
2021 is upon us and many of us are more than ready to leave the turbulence of 2020 and make a fresh start. The incoming Biden administration promises to take bold steps to deal with climate change, but we know … Read More
RecycleSmart, an initiative of the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, offers residents information on best practices for reducing waste, reuse, recycling, and composting. Check out their year end newsletter ‘2020: Is It Over Yet?’ for an insightful look at what happened … Read More
The Newton Sustainable Materials Management Commission (formerly the Newton Solid Waste Commission) advises the Mayor and the City Council on all aspects of municipal trash, recycling, and composting–striving to put into place practices that are environmentally sustainable and align with … Read More
On December 6, Green Newton’s Environmental Youth Leadership Program presented ‘Greening the Holidays,’ a program to help all of us rethink our holiday habits and inspire us to consider the environmental impact of every gift that we give. The video … Read More
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