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The South Shore Recycling Cooperative helps its member towns reduce the quantity, toxicity and cost of disposal since 1998.

There are currently 13 member towns:

Abington, Cohasset, Duxbury, Hanover, Hanson, Hingham, Kingston,

Norwell, Plymouth, Rockland, Scituate, Weymouth, and Whitman.

Next Meeting...	Thurs. August 19, ~~9 am~~ 3 pm (Recycling Ambassadors: Marshfield Fair setup begins at 5 at Fairground) Kingston Town Hall, Room 200, 22 Evergreen St. GUEST SPEAKERS/SPONSORS: TBA TOPICS: EBoard nominations, FY11 Plan, Marshfield Fair
Documents	Bottle Bill Update Fall 2010 HHW flyer "Talking Trash on the South Shore" Powerpoint, R.E.A.C.H. 5/18/2010
News...............	5/10 COMMENTARY: Calling a bottle deposit a tax is garbage by Claire Sullivan, SSRC, and Tony Basile, MassRecycle; Patriot Ledger 5/16/2010 4/10 Volunteers make Abington a little greener Volunteers tackle worst trash piles throughout town in first ‘Cleanup Day’; thousands of non-deposit bottles are recovered. by Allan Stein, Enterprise, 4/26/2010 12/09 Patrick-Murray Administration Maintains Incinerator Moratorium, Expands Recycling Efforts: Energy and Environmental Affairs outlines priorities for comprehensive recycling push; 12/11/2009 11/09 "Less trash adds up to more cash", by Matt Carroll, Globe South Weekly 11/29/2009 9/09 South Shore support swells for Updated Bottle Bill Older news
Events . . . . . .	ù Mercury Management Training, Tues, July 20, 10-noon followed by a light lunch, Mass. Audubon Visual Arts Center, Canton. Free to Covanta contract communities and MassRecycle members. ù Product Stewardship Forum , Tues-Wed, July 20-21, Omni-Parker Hotel ù SSRC Tour of Nantucket's Solid Waste Recycling and Composting Facility Thurs., July 22, 10:45 am. Ferry departs from Hyannis at 9 am. $70/person. Please remit form with payment by July 12. ù SWANA's WasteCon national conference comes to Boston, in conjunction with APWA! August 15-17, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center ù Planet Hugger Boston, July 24-25, Seaport World Trade Center ù SSRC MSW Manager Meeting, Thurs., Aug. 19, 3 pm, Kingston ù Marshfield Fair, August 20-29; Recycling setup Aug 19, cleanup Aug 30; contact Ann McGovern to volunteer ù MassDEP Public Hearing, 2010-2020 Solid Waste Master Plan: A Pathway to Zero Waste, Thurs, Sept 9, 5-7 pm, SERO, Riverside Dr., Lakeville
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Did You Know...	Äthat South Shore taxpayers/ratepayers spent over $2 Million to throw away paper last year? more Äthat recycling 2 bags of paper a week keeps 9 trees in the forest, saves 120 gallons of fuel, and keeps 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide out of the air each year? Äthat you do NOT need to remove staples, paper clips, tape, spirals or windows from your paper prior to recycling? more Äthat plastic is derived from crude oil? Making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for a year. Worldwide, some 2.7 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water each year. According to the Container Recycling Institute, 86 percent of plastic water bottles used in the United States become litter or trash.
Photo Gallery....	Click here to see images of the SSRC and local recycling initiatives in action!

Contact Us ......	Email Executive Director Claire Sullivan, call 781-329-8318 or fax to 781-329-2097 (save a twig - no cover sheet needed!)