getting to zero waste in andover
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Zero Waste In Andover?
Candy Dann, 10-11-13
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What Can I Recycle?
• Single-Stream Recycling means put all your recyclables together…
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What About ….?
YES
• All Paper and Cardboard– Envelopes with windows
– Spiral bound notebooks
– Paperback and phone books
• All glass, metal, plastic and paper containers– Bottles, cans, plastic jars
– Milk, juice, soup cartons
– Juice boxes
– Yogurt, butter tubs
NO
• Plastic bags – save for the grocery store
• Styrofoam – save for UPS or Zero Waste Day
• Juice pouches
• String, wire, cables
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Does It Really Get Recycled?
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Why No Plastic Bags?
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Clothes in any conditionShoes, pocketbooks, belts, flip flops, underwearTorn, stained, worn clothesStuffed animalsLinens, towels, sheets
No wet, oily, smelly or moldy items
Clothing Recyclers Want It All -the “good, the bad and the ugly”!
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Anything More?Food Waste is the Next Horizon
Backyard Composting• Vegetable peelings• Fruit• Bread• Napkins, paper towels
Town will order some composters at discounted prices if there are pre-paid orders.
Secret hint: store up 2-3 bags of leaves in the fall next to your compost bin and always add a handful when you add food.
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Beyond Backyard Composting
• Curbside collection of food waste– Hamilton and Wenham – doing it now
– Manchester and Ipswich - under consideration
– Cambridge, Newton - planning pilot tests
– Arlington, Winchester, Rockport – private firms offer to collect organics from individual household
– All Andover schools will soon be separating food waste
– All Commercial “Generators” of large amounts will have to separate food waste – grocery stores, etc
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School Food Waste Diversion
Now diverting food waste:• Andover High• Wood Hill Middle• High Plain Elementary
Starting this year: • West Elementary• West Middle• Bancroft Elementary
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ResultsStudents teaching other students
Parents, volunteers, teachers, staff, and students working together
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Students Involved AHS Students led the Middle School Assembly High Plain Elementary Art students took
recycling into their art classes
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Wood Hill Middle School9-13-13
Trash12%
Liquids15%
Rec8%
Food, Trays65%
Trash
Liquids
Rec
Food, Trays
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High Plain Elementary 9-13-13
Trash5%!!
Liquids21%
Rec14%
Food, Trays60%
Trash
Liquids
Rec
Food, Trays
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Other Good Things In AHS
• Environmental Student Internship Class
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What To Do With The Miscellaneous Waste?
• Andover’s Zero Waste Day, Lazarus House, Project Home Again accept:– Furniture, household items, decorations– Clothes, linens
• ZWD also takes:– Reusable construction materials– Bikes, toys, books, and styrofoam
• Drop boxes at West Elementary School takes:– Books (hardcover and paperback), CDs, DVDs,
• Best Buy takes– Electronics, TVs,
• Staples takes– Computers, printers, and related peripherals
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Have We Forgotten Anything? Is This The Future Of The Trash Can?