Costs for both disposal and recycling are increasing. New markets for recyclables will take time to develop. Landfills are closing in Mass., leaving fewer options for cost effective disposal of waste. The SSRC supports efforts by its Member Communities to reduce the generation of solid waste, including recyclable items. This…
Over 70 percent of Scituate households use the transfer station, and many more are making the effort to recycle. This is something Dorie Stolley likes to hear. Stolley is the recycling education and compliance officer with the South Shore Recycling Cooperative. The cooperative’s message is Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Right,…
by Claire Galkowski, Posted in Resource Recycling June 5, 2018 With so much focus on the recycling crisis, we tend to overlook the root cause of the problem: the glut of short-lived consumer products and packaging. Rather than looking for new places to dispose, it is imperative that we look at…
