At the Needham Congregational Church’s Climate Café on Sunday, Oct. 27th, Needham RTS Superintendent Ann Dorfman spoke to an enthusiastic group of 30 people about recycling. Ann, who became Needham’s RTS Superintendent in Sept. 2012, has worked in the recycling
It’s Been 30 Years – Let’s Update the Bottle Bill
We need your help collecting signatures to put the updated bottle deposit question on the ballot in November 2014. The 68,911 required Massachusetts registered voter signatures must be obtained by late November. The updated Bottle Bill will require deposits on
Recycling Opportunities at the RTS — More Than You Think!
What do these items have in common: faded curtains, an old stuffed animal, a music CD, a cellphone, and a clean rigid plastic flower pot? These items, and many more, can be taken to the Needham RTS for recycling or
Recycling results for school and town buildings – 2011-12
Needham is in its fourth year of single-stream recycling in schools and town buildings. How are we doing? Not as well as we could be. The total amount of recycling was about the same in 2011-12 (3rd year) as it
Bottled up, again
For nearly fifteen years, Massachusetts legislators and supporters have been trying to pass an expanded bottle bill that would treat all beverage containers similarly, ending the nonsensical distinction between carbonated beverages (subject to the deposit) and non-carbonated beverages (not subject
Recycling pilot featured on the Needham Channel news
This week’s Needham Channel News included a report on the pilot program for recycling containers in public places. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG9nPnnDBuM Green Needham and the Interfaith Environmental Network worked with the Department of Public Works, the Park & Recreation Commission and the
Interfaith Environmental Network fields recycling pilot
Youth sports teams and other users of several DeFazio and Memorial Park fields will soon be able to recycle their containers instead of throwing them away thanks to a recycling pilot led by seven Needham faith organizations. Members of the
Downtown Recycling Initiative
Over the last several years, Green Needham has received suggestions that recycling containers should be available in public areas like downtown, the Heights business district and at playing fields. Until this past year, Needham didn’t have any way to service
Recycling results for school and town buildings
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.
For a Greener Holiday Season: Think Paper and Packaging!
[Guest blog post by Amy Winslow) Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, we generate 25 percent more landfill waste than during the rest of the year, and buy enough greeting cards to fill a football stadium 10 stories high!* When