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
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
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
It’s hard to tell from a simple $10 t-shirt that it took a lot of energy to grow, harvest, and process the cotton; manufacture the fabric and sew the shirt; and package and transport it. In a sense, the t-shirt … Read More
Buying products with recycled content fosters the diversion and recycling of materials from the solid waste stream and promotes the use of these materials in the manufacture of new products. It creates domestic markets for materials collected and recycled through … Read More
Clean out your old files and medicine cabinets and bring them to the Secure Document Shredding and Drug Take-Back Day event on Saturday, November 14 from 8am-12pm at the Resource Recovery Center (115 Rumford Ave., Newton). Advanced sign-up required: call the Newton Senior Center … Read More
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