by Amy Lestition Burke and Heidi Sanborn, opinion contributors, The Hill, 06/03/25 Every day, essential workers in recycling and waste management face an escalating threat: fires and explosions sparked by improperly discarded consumer products containing lithium-ion batteries and other hazardous products such as compressed gas cylinders. These fire incidents are no longer…
Sat. May 10, 2025, 9 am – 1 pm Open to residents of all SSRC Member Towns Location is revealed on the registration formThere is a limited supply of compost bins. We will take orders while supplies last. To learn more about home composting, and see if your town offers low-cost bins,…
The South Shore Recycling Cooperative (“SSRC”), on behalf of its eighteen Member Municipalities (MMs), is seeking bids from qualified firms to provide curbside collection and management of residential food waste in a subscription based, opt-in program as a preferred vendor. Contracts resulting from this bid will provide a partnership between the awarded…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chaz Miller , Semi-retired, 40-year veteran of the waste and recycling industry, April 29, 2024 You’ve probably seen a newspaper, television, or online article insisting that recycling isn’t working. They say what we put in our recycling bins doesn’t get recycled. Instead, it ends up in landfills. Some of these stories come…
The North and South River Watershed Association (NSRWA) is hosting the 2024 Gardening Green Expo from 3/11-3/16. Its five online interactive workshops includes The Joy of Composting – Turning Garbage to Gold , presented by Ann McGovern, MassDEP’s recently retired Compost Specialist, on Fri., 3/15 from 7-8:30 pmThe Expo also features in-person…
Waste Dive, January 9, 2024 Submitted by the following members of the Product Stewardship Institute: Too much paper and cardboard is still going to waste in the United States. Contrary to popular belief, recycling costs money and even the most recycled materials should pay their fair share of recycling programs….
