Gazette – recycling
My column in this week’s Gazette talks about recycling and the need for people and particularly businesses to do more. I would like to see the Middleboro BOS encourage more recycling – both from residences and businesses. They might even consider a committee similar to one formed in Medford that took a comprehensive look at the city’s recycling efforts:
Recycling is one of a number of things that should be re-evaluated periodically as the market and technology change.
The paper also features a typically pithy editorial from Jane Lopes about the lackluster effort the BOS typically make to encourage attendence at town meeting.
Themocracy
A look over Mboro’s borders always finds us coming us short and this seems to be one more example. Do you think this should have been combined with the landfill committee’s tasks?
A year ago we started using the stickers instead of paying the quarterly trash bill. We quickly discovered that with the expanded recycling,(they now accept plastic numbers 1-7),all cardboard, including cereal boxes and other clean food cardboard containers plus cans and glass that we never even needed to use the large bag stickers. (We have always recycled the newspapers) Sometimes we even skip a week with the small bag stickers. We compost all vegetable leftovers but we put all meat type garbage in an emply milk carton in the freezer where it stays odor free until trash day. How much have we saved in a year? $216 dollars a year versus $1.25 times 52 or $65 (or less if you skip weeks like we have) Have your kids do it, let them keep the money savings and teach them how they can help the environment at the same time.