Low cost compost bin sale – order by 4/9

Now is the perfect time to start composting your food and yard waste in your back yard! The SSRC is doing a bulk order of 80 gallon Earth Machine compost bins and 1.85 gal. kitchen scrap buckets. If we get enough orders by April 9, we will distribute them at…

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Recycling Under Attack Again in NYT

Chaz Miller, 40-year veteran of the waste and recycling industry, Waste360, February 26, 2025 (excerpts) Once again, recycling is under attack. Once again, we are being told that recycling is a lie. That the recyclables we sort and place on the curbside are just mixed with garbage and shipped overseas. That…

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Marshfield joins the SSRC

by Claire Galkowski, Executive Director November 5, 2024 At last night’s Select Board meeting in Marshfield, the Board voted to sign the Intermunicipal Agreement with the South Shore Recycling Cooperative and its other seventeen Member Municipalities.   On Oct 21, the Board of Public Works had voted to join. The SSRC Board had voted…

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Free clothing, shoes at South Shore pop-up shop this weekend

Jessica Trufant, The Patriot Ledger, Oct. 31, 2024 WEYMOUTH − A group of volunteers will host a pop-up shop with free second-hand clothing from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2 at Weymouth High School. The clothing giveaway happens in the spring and fall each year. It started as a collaboration between…

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