Conference 7.286::maynard

    
    Re: .0   The recycling hours are 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
    
                                    Mark
    

	According to the Board of Health, they would like the papers to
	be in brown paper shopping bags for recycling.

    
      Newspaper recycling again this Saturday, February 18th.  They
    don't take glossy color stuff like magazines, only newspapers
    that are tied and in brown paper bags as previously mentioned.
    
                              Mark

Just out of curiosity, who is doing this.  Is this town or church?

    The town Board of Health is sponsoring the recycling.  The people doing
    the work last time were a couple of Board of Health members, plus
    several residents.  Two of us were DECies. The Church donated the space
    for the container.
    
    If anyone else wants to volunteer to help out, that would be great. The
    work really isn't hard, just taking bags of newspaper out of cars and
    packing the container to the ceiling. Stop by for an hour, or however
    long you can make it.  I cleverly managed to strain some tendons in my
    arm recently, so I can't do the recycling this time. 

    -Steve

    The recycling has moved to another location, I hope permanently:
    the DPW garage on Winter Street.  There is a small blue DPW sign
    where Winter Street meets Great Road.
    
    They will collect three kinds of items:
    - Newspaper in paper bags (not tried, and no magazines)
    - Office paper (high quality, non-glossy paper like computer paper)
    - Clear glass (cleaned out, no lids, no colored glass, try to remove
      the labels if you can)

    The Town Hall has been recycling their computer paper recently,
    too.
    
    Again, volunteers are very welcome.

    -Steve

		Remember, this is tomorrow morning.  

	Is it okay to include all the adds from the Sunday paper?
	Some of them look kind of glossy, especially the free coupons.

	I ask because if it's okay I might as well include them. If
	not it's no trouble taking them out.

	- Mark

    The recycling company can tolerate a certain percent of lower-grade
    stuff, or even outright garbage in the newspaper.  What happens is that
    the town has the newspaper trucked to the recycling company, and then
    they determine if they want to accept it or not. 
    
    So, what does this all mean?  A perfect load of newspaper to be
    recycled would have no glossy stuff.  However, in practice, this is not
    likely to cause a load to be refused by the recycler. 
    
    I would exclude the glossy stuff if it's easy.  If you already
    have the papers bagged up, it's probably not worth bothering.

    -Steve

    does the recycling still happen on the 3rd saturday of each month?
    or has the schedule changed?
    
    thanks
    liz

    it's still done at the DPW site on Winter street. they also take clear
    glass and high-grade paper (like office waste paper).

    will we get to recycle other kinds of glass? cans? will it become more
    frequent? will the program get better coverage in the beacon? (keep
    writing those letters -- they're better than the articles).

    					-- hs 

    thanks for the info, hal. actually, i'm still interested in hearing
    about the schedule -- is it still done on third saturdays?
    
    thanks...
    liz

    RE: .11
    
    Yes, it is still the 3rd Saturday of each month, for the time being.

    The Board of Health would like to make recycling more frequent, but the
    problem is coming up with volunteers.  So far, the same people have
    showed up month after month.  Obviously, the more people volunteer, the
    less load on each person, and the more time the recycling will be open. 

    There was a very interesting Board of Health meeting Tuesday.  The Stow
    recycling people came to talk.  They have a very successful program,
    with about *sixty* volunteers supervising the Stow recycling center.
    They are very organized, scheduling two workers at a time in two
    shifts, every Saturday.  They fill a giant container with newspaper in
    about five weeks. 

    What the Stow folks and the Maynard Board of Health talked about
    was the possibility of starting up mutual recycling programs for the
    more small-volume items:  amber colored glass, certain plastics,
    metals.  They all have to look into the practical aspects like what
    kind of storage containers to use, where to put them, which recycling
    company to deal with, etc., to complete the plans.  
    
    There was more good feeling and agreement in that room than I have
    ever seen at a board meeting in the Town of Maynard (maybe I haven't
    gone to the right ones...)

    -Steve

    The last time I dropped of my load, they said they would start this
    month collecting "returnable" bottles and cans for local charities.
    I think the Rotary club gets them this month.

... at the DPW lot.

Looking for paper, clear glass.

They are also collecting bottles and cans, the proceeds going to the
Maynard Neighborhood Preservation Society this month (I believe).


- dave

Starting in Oct. the recycling will be twice a month, 1st and 3rd Saturday's
9-12.  This will continue till summer, when it goes back to 3rd Saturday.
They will now collect clear, brown and green glass - in seperate bags.
Also tin and aluminum.  The sheet they were handing out stated to test cans
with a magnet, if it sticks, its tin.  Also, remove both ends and flatten
can.  

I have tried to contact the Board of health today, but could not
reach them - I have several types of cans that removing the bottoms is
not easy, should I just flatten them as best I can??  Hopefully I'll find
out tomorrow.  Also baby food lids, they are tin, but have a plastic coating
on the top - can I recycle this?  

My basement is getting full of paper bags!  Two for newspaper, several for 
pop cans, one for tin, one for clear glass  and one for colored.  I have 
yet to start sifting through my junk mail for "office paper", I guess that 
will be another bag!

    Can we also bring tires?  My garage is full of them.  If not, any idea
    how to get rid of them?  The trash pick-up men won't take them.
    

RE: .18:

>    Can we also bring tires?  My garage is full of them.  If not, any idea
>    how to get rid of them?  The trash pick-up men won't take them.

They had a special automotive day at recycling a couple of months ago: tires,
oil, batteries.  People paid a buck to pay for tire disposal, and gave away
the rest.  The Board of Health plans to do this again perhaps next Spring. 

At present, they are still accepting car batteries at recycling, but the
other stuff will have to wait in your basement.

The way it works is that the Board has to pay for someone to take away the
tires and oil.  They made a small profit charging $1 for each tire, and that
pretty much paid for the oil disposal. 

RE: .17

>I have tried to contact the Board of health today, but could not reach them 

You could try calling Rob Gogan, at home 897-5816.  Rob's on the Board,
and he knows the most about recycling.  He's a very nice guy, too.

-Steve

Does anyone know when the next hazardous waste day will be ??

    I called today about my cans that I can't take the
    bottom off - I should just flatten them the best I can.
    I asked about hazardous wastes, he said Acton doesn't
    have the money to do it this year, so Maynard will be
    on it's own to sponsor one.  In May they will look at their
    trash budget, and if they can do one, it will be in June.
    So you will have to hang onto the stuff for a while.
    

    
    Recycling of returnable bottles & cans this Saturday morning, 
    	November 4th, 9 - 12 at the DPW on Winter Street.
    
    Proceeds will go to Maynard Cub Scout Pack 130.
    
    Do a "Good Turn" by recycling and help support the cubs at the
    	same time.
    
    
    Toni
    

    I missed recycling this week, but the last time I was there someone was
    turning in a bunch of plastic bottles (water or cider) and some laundry
    detergent bottles. does anyone know about this? I haven't heard
    anything official saying that they'll take such items.

    					-- hs 

    Yes they are taking plastics now.  The town gets $500 a ton for it.  
    What I saw last weekend was primarily water, cider, milk jugs.  You'd
    have to check with the board of health about "colored" plastics.
    
    Chris

	Is there someway the DPW, or someone, can let more people know
	about the recycling going on? I've got neighbors who neither work
	for Digital nor read the Beacon (can you believe it???) so if it
	weren't for me telling them about recycling they wouldn't know.
	I suspect there may be other Maynard folks who may have similar
	_peculiarities_! ;-)

	Here are my suggestions for informing more people about recycling...

	o Create a flyer which immediately grabs the attention of the
	  reader, who's just about ready to throw away junk mail! Something
	  along the lines of "Maynard recycling" in bold letters - I'm not
	  really sure - I'm not a marketing type. Maybe a local print shop
	  could print the flyers, for a reduced fee, as a favor for the town. 
	  List on the flyer;

		o What is currently recycled.
		o Days and times of recycling.
		o How the town/people/organizations benefit from the program.
		  (Make this a very short list)
		o The phone number of _someone's_office_ who can answer 
		  questions about the program. This could also be the number 
		  to ask for additional flyers (for those landlord types to 
		  pass to new tenants.........wishful thinker me? There's got
		  to be a way to let newcomers know about the program.)
		o A reminder that this flyer can be posted on the refrigerator!

	  The flyer should not be cluttered. Someone with good English grammar 
	  skills should be involved. Unclear flyers may confuse people enough 
	  to the point of discarding, and ignoring, the flyers.

	o Ask one, or more, of the cub scout packs if they would deliver flyers 
	  to every mailbox in town. I hope the post office doesn't mind. 
	  (Including information/flyers in "The Sunday Chronicle" may be the 
	   best idea, not sure, but my neighbors also don't read that. Having 
	   the post office deliver would seem like a wonderful favor but I tend 
	   to think that they haven't been to _every_ mailbox in one day - I 
	   could be wrong - but I believe they just go to the mailboxes for 
	   which they have mail.)

	  Would it be asking too much to ask the cub scouts to pick up 
	  recyclable material from folks who cannot bring the stuff on their
	  own? Maybe a phone number could be included with a message like 
	  "For those who are physically unable to bring recyclable material 
	  to the DPW garage call the Will Dodd Community Center at XXX-XXXX".
	  They in turn could forward the message to the current Cub Scout
	  leader.

	o Wish for the best!

	Are these suggestions possible? What are other suggestions? Are
	we recycling enough to keep the program going?

	Mark

I've been thinking of just this thing.  

Actually, there was a flyer put in our doors a while ago, dont' know 
if it was sectional or what, that listed the leaf pick up days and the 
recycling program, but the information was incomplete. 


The other thing I think the flyer should list is real-life examples of 
stuff.  For instance, say clear, green, or brown glass bottles, but 
then give examples of wine bottles, mayonaise bottles, juice bottles, 
etc.      I saved my occasional mayonaise jar, but didn't think of the 
wine bottles for a long time.  Guess my mind thought that if it wasn't 
returnable, it wasn't recycleable.     


After it says tin cans, list things like cans for vegetables, tomato 
sauce, canned fruit, etc.  

Plastic jugs like those for milk and cider. 

Also, everyone thinks of paper as newspaper, what about all those 
non-window envelopes of all the mail we get, and the contents of the 
junk mail, and the flyers we get in plastic bags on our door knobs.  I 
saved all that once and got another bag full of stuff. 


So anyway, I've been thinking the same thing.  I'd be happy to work on 
it with someone, like calling cub scouts or whatever.  

Who runs it for the town, board of health? 

    yes, the board of health runs the program and Rob Gogan is the board's
    chairperson. the board also has an ad-hoc committee on solid waste
    which does just the kind of things that you want to do. 
    
    give them a call and sign up. they used to meet one monday night a
    month after the regular board meeting (and probably still do). the
    phone number is 897-1001.

    					-- hs 

Does anyone know why the collection of plastic (toth, the mike and 
cider jugs, and the #2 type containers) has been stopped?  

Karen 

    	My understanding is that the person who was taken the plastic
    containers was starting to put demands on the town like bottle to be
    dried, the containers need to be stored in a dry location so they would
    not get icey, etc. 
    	My felling is that the industry and government (state,ferdal) are
    not really behine recycling.
    
    art