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Marlborough Recycling Information   

City of Marlborough Recycling 

Go to the Marlborough City Website http://www.marlborough-ma.gov/Home/ and find the Marlborough recycling schedule under “Residents” by clicking on “Trash and Recycling Calendar."  Find Marlborough's waste disposal information including CFLs/mercury at “Trash and Recycling FAQs”

 

  Hazardous Waste Collection 

  Spring & fall in Marlborough at 860 Boston Post Road East (behind Half-Way Cafe on Route 20). See what is collected at Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day or visit Marlborough DPW's webpage.

 

Community Swap Shop

http://www.CommunitySwapShop.com/regions/metrowest 

jodi@CommunitySwapShop.com

 

  Styrofoam Recycling

  Dave & Barbara Sherman, Framingham, MA Tel:  508-872-2323

  Email: refoamit@verizon.net   Web: http://www.kwd.us/IRP.htm  

 

What can I do?

 

Reduce

  • Buy less.  

  • Buy products with less packaging

  • Stop junk mail

  • Junk Mail/ Paper Facts

    • Every person gets junk mail that adds up to one and a half trees each year.
    • The average person gets 1.5 personal letters for each 10.8 pieces of junk mail.

  • Remove your name from national mailing lists for FREE

Reuse

  • Fix and reuse things before throwing them away

  • Give things to Salvation Army, yard sales, swaps, www.FreeCycle.org, or Craig's List

Recycle

  • Set up recycling areas at home:  kitchen, home office, garage

  • Recycle every scrap of paper

  • Recycle every scrap of cardboard 

  • Recycle glass, metal, #1-7 plastics (look for the number in the triangle on the bottom of the container)  NOTE:  #6 is not recycled in Marlborough!

  • Most food and beverage containers can be recycled

  • If you do not have a blue or green recycle bin for curbside recycling, just write the word RECYCLE on a container and use it instead.

  • Plastic bags (shopping bags, frozen vegetable bags, clear plastic bags, etc.) can be returned to the grocery store for recycling. 

Compost

  • Set up a food compost container in the kitchen

  • Get or make a composting bin in your yard; compost yard leaves and lawn grass

  • Food and yard waste adds weight to trash; composting reduces time, expense and pollution 

So what's the problem?

Most landfills are full already.  

Transporting waste burns fuel.

Trash burned as biomass pollutes the air.

Methane gas from trash/landfills pollutes the air. 

Raw materials are limited, expensive and dangerous to extract.

 

What are the Benefits?

If we all recycled paper, glass, plastic, and aluminum we would...

  • Save Marlborough $1million each year

  • Save precious land from being used as landfills

  • Reduce greenhouse gasses and improve air quality

  • Improve land and water quality

  • Reduce time/energy wasted on trash and increase our leisure time

  • Feel good about doing something for the environment!

  • Paper recycling benefits:

  •       Recycling one ton of paper saves 17 trees.

  •       One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year.

  •       More than 1/3 of all paper fiber used to make paper comes from recycled paper.

General Information

Did you know?

When you renovate, you can ask your building contractor to recycle building materials.  This is standard practice for some companies!  Ask your contractor about this before you renovate.

 

Making a Difference - True Story!  One Marlborough resident noticed a neighbor was not recycling.  So one day he got a free recycling bin and knocked on the neighbor's door.  He visited with a recycling bin, a smile and a handshake.  The next week the neighbor had the recycling bin on the curb!

 

Way to make a difference!

 

 

Learn about reusable bags!

Look at www.1BagAtaTime.com .

 

 

 

       GreenMarlborough.Org   2007