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Recycling News & Updates
Thank you for reading this e-newsletter and thank you for all you do to reduce waste!
In This Issue:
- Not Your Average PSA - Watch and Share!
- Final Days for Food Service Polystyrene in Cambridge
- Costume Swap and Other Great Reuse Opportunities
- See How Your Recycling Gets Sorted - Oct 27 Tour
- Seeking Recycling Advisory Committee Applicants
- Shred Day Event - Oct 22
- Bring Hazardous Items for Safe Disposal - Oct 29 - Last of the Year
- Pumpkins & Yard Waste
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Not Your Average PSA - Watch and Share!
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| Get Rid of It Right - Recycling Is Easy! |
Click
here
or on the image above to watch a short video about recycling.
Please share this video with others!
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Final Days for Food Service Polystyrene in Cambridge
Last year the Cambridge City Council adopted a Polystyrene Ordinance prohibiting retail establishments from dispensing prepared food in polystyrene food containers. It goes into effect October 20, 2016. Polystyrene is a type of plastic that includes expanded polystyrene ("Styrofoam") and rigid polystyrene (all other #6 plastics).
Sustainable dining tips:
- Switch to reusable water bottles and coffee mugs
- Choose to eat-in with reusable tableware
- If you get take-out, food-soiled recyclables should be rinsed of food or drink before placed in recycling bin
- Refuse unnecessary take-out items. For instance, if heading home with your take-out, refuse the plastic utensils. Say no to a straw at restaurants. Refuse excess condiments, napkins, or other items you don't think you'll use. The business will save money and you'll be reducing waste!
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Costume Swap and Other Great Reuse Opportunities
Halloween Costume Swap - Saturday, Oct 15 - 10am-2pm -
Cambridge Community Center, 5 Callender Street. Go Green this Halloween and bring your complete, gently worn costumes and look for a costume that's new to you.
Harvard Surplus in Allston has LOADS of great stuff to give away. Thursdays, 10am - 2pm, 156 Western Avenue. Open to all, first-come, first served.
ReuseConex - Oct 17, 18, 19 - This biennial conference is in our backyard this year. Join in and get inspired!
Shop Reused! See our map of locations where you can shop second-hand (red and green pins).
Unwanted Stuff? See if your neighbors want it! Check out
NextDoor.com.
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See How Your Recycling Gets Sorted - Oct 27 Tour
Cambridge residents and City employees are invited to tour the Casella recycling facility in Charlestown on Thursday, Oct 27 in the morning. Tours last about 2 hours and involve walking on narrow catwalks and stairs, close to heavy equipment. You must be able to walk at a steady pace with a group. No children under 16. We meet at DPW and carpool, so when you sign up let us know if you can drive and how many people you can take.
Can't make the tour? Watch this video.
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Seeking Recycling Advisory Committee Applicants
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Shred Day Event - Oct 22
Learn more here!
Please shred selectively. Shredded paper cannot be recycled as many times because it makes the fibers in the paper shorter.
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Bring Items Marked
"POISON, DANGER, WARNING, CAUTION" for Safe Disposal - Oct 29
The next (and last of the year) Household Hazardous Waste Collection will be Sat Oct 29,
9am-1pm, Volpe Transportation Center Lot 4 (via
Munroe off 3rd St.). We encourage you to ask your neighbors if you can bring materials for them.
See website
for more info.
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Pumpkins & Yard Waste
After Halloween, pumpkins are accepted with yard waste for curbside collection (remove candles). But, consider cooking your sugar pumpkins! Chop and roast in the oven or steam/puree to use in delicious roasted breads, soups, cookies, pies and m
ore.
Composting in your backyard? Save fall leaves to cover up or bury food scraps in your backyard compost bin, and remember to keep right ratio: 3 parts "browns" to 1 part "greens".
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- Missed recycling, yard waste, compost or trash? Please use Commonwealth Connect and report it online or via mobile app (iPhone/Android) or call DPW at 617-349-4800 by 12 noon the day after collection to make a request.
- Need toters, brochures, labels, or posters? Email recycle@cambridgema.gov or fill out this form.
- Following a weekday holiday, curbside trash, recycling, compost and yard waste collection is delayed one day. Check the 2016 collection schedule.
Our address:
Cambridge Department of Public Works
147 Hampshire Street, Cambridge MA 02139
(617) 349-4800
recycle@cambridgema.gov
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