Drop off your hazardous waste on Saturday, November 23, from 9 – 2 at the West Roxbury Public Works Yard, 315 Gardner Street in West Roxbury at Millennium Park. No latex or acrylic paints, please. For Boston residents only, no commercial waste accepted, and proof of residency required. For more information please call the Mayor’s hotline at 617-635-4500, or visit www.cityofboston.gov/recycle. Thank you www.apartmenttherapy.com for yet another great photo.
Mayor Menino asks residents to RECYCLE MORE! Keep the neighborhood clean, and do something good for the environment. You can put all your recycling in the new Boston Recycling Clear Plastic Bag! Residents will be receiving a sample of the City of Boston’s new recycling clear plastic bag at their homes in early May.
Neighborhoods with houses densely packed together, have no room to store recycling bins or carts. Therefore, the City has allowed residents in these neighborhoods to put their bottles, cans, paper, and plastic containers in clear plastic bags. Boston’s new recycling bags are now on sale at neighborhood stores. No bags where you shop? Please contact WasteZero at 617-299-8012 or www.wastezero.com/boston . WasteZero will contact your store to carry the recycling bags. Other questions, call the Mayor’s hotline at 617-635-4500 or visit www.cityofboston.gov/publicworks/recycling.
The City of Boston Department of Public Works will collect and recycle Christmas trees during the first two weeks of January. You should put your tree out on your regular trash and recycling collection day (in most of Back Bay, that’s Monday and Thursday). If your building puts trash in a dumpster, trees should be placed next to the dumpster for collection. If you miss these recycling times, call 617-635-4959 for possible additional date or dates in January.
Remove all ornaments, tinsel, lights, and other non-organic decorative materials. Flocked trees will often need to be chopped and disposed with regular solid waste. For more information on tree recycling for other areas of Massachusetts, and indeed nationwide, log on to www.pickyourownchristmastree.org/disposing.php.
The City of Boston Department of Public Works will collect and recycle Christmas trees during the first two weeks of January. You should put your tree out on your regular trash and recycling collection day (in most of Back Bay, that’s Monday and Thursday). If your building puts trash in a dumpster, trees should be placed next to the dumpster for collection. If you miss these recycling times, call 617-635-4959 for possible additional date or dates in January.
Remove all ornaments, tinsel, lights, and other non-organic decorative materials. Flocked trees will often need to be chopped and disposed with regular solid waste. For more information on tree recycling for other areas of Massachusetts, and indeed nationwide, log on to www.pickyourownchristmastree.org/disposing.php.
E-Waste is a popular informal name for consumer and business electronic equipment that has reached the end of its useful life. Over 130 million mobile phones alone were discarded in 2005. The National Safety Council projects that nearly 250 million computers will become obsolete in the next five years. Researchers have estimated that nearly 75% of E-Waste is in storage. Here is the opportunity for FREE, safe and environmentally sound and friendly disposal and recycling. Recycling is a resource conservation issue. Today’s consumer electronics contain highly recyclable materials that would otherwise require mining of virgin materials from the earth to meet today’s need for raw materials. Today’s electronics recycling technology reduces consumer electronics into separated commodity streams of metals, plastics and glass that are processed into raw materials for reuse in new manufactured products. For example, one ton of recycled computers will yield about one ounce of gold. To produce this same ounce of gold from a virgin resource requires mining 7-11 tons of ore and the energy to mine and process this ore. Clearly, recycling helps us save our precious natural resources and the planet we live on. Materials accepted at the event on Saturday, June 6 include monitors, LCD displays, laptops, servers, televisions, DVDs, VCRs, stereos, camcorders, cameras, radios, games systems, fax machines, photo copiers, printers, scanners, telephones, and a host of others. The complete list can be found at www.boston.poweron.com. The materials may be brought to the Bayside Expo Center, 200 Mount Vernon Street, Dorchester, MA 02125, and directions can be found on the web site noted above.
