Here are some great resources for more information on recycling and
sustainability.
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MassRecycle - the
Massachusetts Recycling Coalition
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Mass Recycles Paper!
Campaign
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Massachusetts Legislation and State Budget information
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Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection - municipal
recycling page
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US EPA Municipal Solid
Waste in the US - Facts and Figures
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Earth 911 - Provides
community-specific information on environmental issues, including
local recycling resources
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Sustainable South Shore
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Freecycle - an online
"swap shop". Recycle your usable unwanted items through
a local email network. If you want to find a new home for
something -- whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door
-- you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of your Freecycle
group. If you're looking to acquire something yourself. Simply respond
to a member's offer, and you just might get it.
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Building
Materials Resource Center - a nonprofit building materials re-use
project in Boston that accepts donations of good quality used and
surplus cabinets, fixtures, doors, windows, lumber, sheetrock, etc. and
sells them to the public at low prices. In addition, low and
moderate-income customers and nonprofits are eligible for a considerable
discount on those prices.
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World
Computer Exchange - Donations of monitors, CPUs, peripherals,
and software can be made in Boston and in Hull. The equipment is
shipped to developing nations in the Third World.
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Free Recycling Of Dell-Branded Products
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Dell currently offers consumers no-charge recycling of
any brand of used computer or printer with the purchase
of a new Dell computer or printer. This service includes
home pick-up of the used computer at no charge. Dell will
also provide consumers no-charge
recycling of any Dell-branded product, regardless of
whether a replacement product is purchased.
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Fluorescent lamp recycling
- Information about how and why to recycle
fluorescent and compact fluorescent (CFLs) lamps. While much more
energy efficient than incandescent and halogen lamps, they do contain
mercury and should be recycled.
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Massachusetts
registered bottle and can
redemption
centers list
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List of
Mass. supermarkets with certified recycling status (SPRC)
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Wastecap - the
statewide, non-profit, public/private partnership working with the
business community to develop and implement cost-effective programs
for recycling, buying recycled, reuse, and waste reduction.
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Crazy Crayons recycling program:
for
every pound of old stubby crayons sent to LAF Lines Ltd. for
recycling, you will receive one CRAZY CRAYON™. For example, you send
50 pounds of unwanted crayons and you will get 50 CRAZY CRAYONS™ in
return, as an effort to “close the loop”.
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Mass. Audubon Society,
5 Positive ways to preserve the planet - Recycle
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EnviroCalc
- The Mass. Operational Services Division developed a way to
calculate environmental benefits of purchasing environmentally
preferable products
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AmericaRecyclesDay
Recycling resources and inspiration "It All Comes Back to You"
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Commonwealth
Communities - A
state resource for finding information on the 351 cities and towns
in Massachusetts. Each
Community page includes links to official city/town and public
school websites, and other Community sites that provide substantial
information.
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Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
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Global
Warming and Waste (EPA)
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EPA
New England, Region 1
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Center
for Ecological Technology (CET)
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Northeast
Recycling Council, Inc (NERC)
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WasteWi$e - a voluntary program of the US EPA that allows organizations to
structure their own cost-saving recycling programs.;
List of
Massachusetts members
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Fast
Facts about Waste Reduction
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Facts about
Plastic - Life Without Plastic.com
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Plastic Recycling Fun Facts
- NAPCOR
