Recycle Right – It’s Easy Once You Know How. What’s just as important, or even more important, than separating out your recyclable containers and bringing them to the RTS? Keeping things like plastic wrap/films (Saran Wrap, plastic film used for packaging consumer
Needham RTS Recycling Tips: Contaminated Recycling is Trash
Recycle Right – It’s Easy Once You Know How Recycling can only happen when there is no contamination – otherwise, it’s just more trash. What are some examples of contamination in the RTS recycling bins? Here are a few: plastic
Needham RTS Recycling Tips: No Plastic Bags
Recycle Right – It’s Easy Once You Know How Yes, plastic bags from the grocery store are recyclable, but not at the RTS. In fact, these bags represent one of the biggest sources of trouble in the recycling stream. They
Top 10 Recycling Challenges at the Needham RTS
At Green Needham’s November 29th “Toward Zero Waste” event, Greg Smith (Needham’s Superintendent of Recycling and Solid Waste) presented his list of Needham’s top 10 recycling challenges: Keep plastic wrap and plastic bags out of the recycling containers. Keep trash out