Welcome Home accepts new and gently used and new household items and distributes them to families experiencing hardship. Items they don’t accept, along with cardboard and paper, are picked up each week and taken to Newton Resource Recovery Center for reuse … Read More
Read on for some fast facts about textiles in Massachusetts: 1 Clothing and textile products amount to 6% of all material going into U.S. landfills and incinerators…that’s 230,000 tons annually in Massachusetts alone! 2 Textile reuse and recycling has the … Read More
Mass Save is offering $75 to come and pick up your working, inefficient fridge or freezer. You can avoid the hassle of disposing of it yourself and know that it will be recycled responsibly, keeping hazardous material waste out of … Read More
The Newton Free Library’s Library of Things offers many useful and fun items that you can check out just like a book. Among the items available is a Portable Movie Projector and 120″ Screen that you can use to create … Read More
According to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), Massachusetts throws away about 600,000 mattresses every year. They are expensive to transport, take up a lot of space in landfills, and can get caught in incinerator processing equipment–resulting in higher … Read More
Thank you to all who attended Newton’s Earth Day Festival this past Sunday, April 24! We hope you enjoyed all the activities and information shared to help you take climate action ‘4 Our Future.’ So many of you started a … Read More
The Swap Shop at the Newton Resource Recovery Center (115 Rumford Ave., Auburndale) is now open on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 7:30am-1:30pm through October 30. City residents can drop off usable items, and take home other items for free. New items are … Read More
The Rotary Club of Newton will start monthly clothing/textile drives again, and this year they are adding housewares to help support Welcome Home, an organization that provides gently used basic household supplies to families in need. Their next collection will … Read More
So. Many. Questions. About Bags. But they are all good! Here are a few: Which type of bag is okay in the green recycling cart (answer: NONE) What stuff is good to take back to the grocery store collection bin? … Read More
More than 40% of all plastic made is packaging, which is used only once or twice before being thrown away. According to a recent analysis examining global plastic waste generation between 2010 and 2016, the United States was responsible for … Read More
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