[Save] Help meet the goal: 40% recycling in Cambridge by 2005

[Jessica Lee]

Greetings to those who live or work off campus:
As part of the Cambridge Climate Protection Plan, the city has implemented 
a goal of recycling 40% of all solid waste by 2005. You can help! Here's a 
message from Randi Mail, Director of Recycling for Cambridge:


Can you imagine 1700 full recycling trucks parked for over almost 9 miles 
bumper to bumper along the Red Line subway tracks from the Alewife T Stop 
all the way to the JFK/UMASS T Stop in Boston? Last year alone, Cambridge 
residents filled that many trucks to the brim with nearly 18,000,000 pounds 
of paper and containers diverted from landfills and incinerators to be made 
into new recycled products!

College students living off-campus in Cambridge make up nearly 10% of the 
population, generating well over 2500 tons of waste each year.  That's 
almost half a ton of waste per student!  Are you doing your part?

Help us meet our goal to recycle 40% of our waste by 2005.  Recycle all of 
your paper, cardboard and cans and bottles every week.  Place rinsed 
containers loose in your blue bin, put papers in a paper bag or bundle with 
string and flatten your cardboard to 3'x3'.  It's that simple.  Free the 
trash!

Visit the Cambridge Recycling website at 
http://www.cambridgema.gov/theworks/departments/recycle/, and click on 
residents.  Your efforts will go a long way to reduce greenhouse gas 
emissions, save resources, and create jobs.  Thank you!

If you are interested in volunteering to spread the word out about 
recycling in Cambridge, please contact us.


Randi Mail
Director of Recycling
Cambridge Dept of Public Works
T  617.349.4866
F  617.349.4814
<mailto:rmail at cambridgema.gov>rmail at cambridgema.<mailto:rmail at cambridgema.gov>gov 

www.cambridgema.gov/theworks/departments/recycle  
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