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Braintree MA, 02184
 
 
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Recycling

Recycling Task Force

 
The Recycling Task force encourages all Braintree residents and businesses to recycle.  It takes less energy to make items from recycled materials than to make them new from raw materials. 
 
 
Braintree's new Single Stream Recycling program makes it easier than ever to recycle.  Put one or two "Single Stream Recycling" stickers (available at Town Hall, Salvaggio Drop-Off Center, Thayer Public Library, and 90 Pond Street) on a clean trash barrel and throw your clean paper, plastic, glass and metal in it all together (co-mingling).   Many Braintree households are recycling more stuff than they are throwing away!   Recent studies show that as much as 90% of household waste can be recycled. 
 
You do the math!  The Town of Braintree pays $50 per ton for solid waste disposal, and receives $10 per ton for all recyclables.  The Town is ahead $60 for every ton of recycled items. 
 
Compost.  By putting your vegetable waste (no meat and no fat) in a compost bin, you eliminate the cost of its disposal as solid waste and get some very rich compost for your garden.  
 
Use re-usable shopping bags.  Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That comes out to over one million per minute. Billions end up as litter each year.
 
For more information about recycling in Braintree, visit http://www.townofbraintreegov.org/recycling/
 
For more information about recycling in Massachusetts, go to http://www.massrecycles.org
 
For more interesting environmental facts, go to http://www.sustainablebraintree.org/learnmore
 
 
     

 
Braintree Trash & Recycling -  Page 1 - Click On the Image for a larger view 



 

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Braintree Trash & Recycling - Page 3 - Click On the Image for a larger view  




You can recycle lots of items that aren't included in Braintree's Single Stream Recycling program.   For More Recycling Resources, Click Here.  

 

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Patriotism Goes Green in Braintree

RECYCLING ROCKS!

The Recycling Task Force thanks the community for recycling at the Fourth of July celebration on June 26.  Sustainable Braintree awarded prizes to people we  "caught recycling". 

 Sustainable Braintree members collected 17.5 bags of bottles and cans from the 65 recycling containers we distributed throughout the high school campus.  These bottles and cans will be recycled instead of incinerated, conserving our precious natural resources

Thanks to the Town officials that made this project possible:  Mssrs. Bill Hedlund and Tom Whalen of the Parks Department and Department of Public Works; Mr. Jeffrey Kunz and Ms. Rosemary Nolan of the Town's Recycling Department. 

Thanks to Richmond Hardware and Capitol Waste for their donations of plastic bags and cardboard containers. 

 

 
Each ton of recyclables generates $22 for the town and saves $50 in trash fees.  Making recycling publically visible at a town-wide event would make a powerful statement that recycling is the right thing to do.  

    
Sustainable Braintree’s Recycling Task Force plans to continue facilitating the recycling of bottles and cans in our public spaces.  Braintree youth athletic programs are encouraged to collect their empty bottles and cans at the athletic fields and take them home for recycling instead of throwing them away.  Portable receptacles can be obtained by contacting Sustainable Braintree.  This is one easy way to care for the natural environment we share.  Americans recycle only about one quarter of the 2 ½ million plastic bottles we use every hour, and it takes a plastic bottle 700 years to begin to decompose. 1 ½ million barrels of oil per year is used to make plastic water bottles for the U.S.  That much energy could fuel 100,000 cars for one year.  

The success of this effort in the past two years demonstrates that recycling programs at future Fourth of July celebrations and other Town events can be successful in reducing the solid waste produced.  Not only does this reduce the Town’s waste disposal fees, but it also reduces our collective impact on our environment.
 
 
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The Recycling Task Force created this display case filled with environmentally-friendly gift-giving ideas.  It was on display at the Thayer Public Library during the month of December 2008.