When you visit the Newton Free Library in June, be sure to take a moment to see the display cases along the hallway to the parking lot door. The Newton Sustainable Materials Management Division has put together a great display … Read More
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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
Are you trying to figure out how to compost in an apartment? Black Earth Compost has you covered with their 4 gallon bin and the option to choose between weekly or every other week pick up to fit your consumption … Read More
Gardening season is growing strong, and with that comes many discarded plastic pots. Sadly, most of these pots cannot be recycled at the Material Recycling Facilities (MRFs) in Massachusetts, to which Newton sends its recyclable materials. The optical sorters that … 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
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
BOSTON – In a sign of the growing momentum for updating the state’s container deposit law, the campaign has announced that well over a majority of state senators have endorsed S.2149, sponsored by Senator Cindy Creem (Newton); a bill which … Read More
According to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, about 30% of the waste that we throw into the household trash is food scraps. By separating those scraps out and composting them, our trash that goes to the incinerator is reduced … 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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