Girl Scout Possibly FINAL Expanded Specialty RECYCLING DRIVE - Autumn 2024

Please join our 10th Even Greater Specialty Recycling Drive

We have no rain date, so please do your best to see any updates on this eventbrite page the NIGHT PRIOR or VISIT the event page on Clean Up Boston via Facebook.

We'll be accepting items below: please REVIEW CAREFULLY on how to prepare items: SEE MORE IN DEPTH INSTRUCTIONS AND EXPLANATIONS BELOW. *******New Items we accept

------------------------- WE ARE NO LONGER TAKING THE FOLLOWING -----------------------

1. NO LONGER TAKING * RUBBERMAID (Any brand of plastic or glass food storage containers; takeout containers, black) -Terracycle stopped taking them
2. UNDERSTAND THAT BLACK PLASTIC CANNOT EVER BE RECYCLED
3. NO SILVER PACKING PLEASE
4. TOWELS AND SHEETS (www.boston.gov/departments/public-works/recycling-clothing-and-textiles or call local animal shelters who often take them)
5. WEARABLE AND SCRAP TEXTILES (please use Helpsy program link in Towels and if you are in the City of Boston or your municipality)

--------------- ITEMS WE TAKE --------- ALL ITEMS MUST BE CLEAN & DRY AND SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER -----------------------

* ALL RIGID CLEAN STYROFOAM!!! (not squishy foamy material) (see details below)

* AMAZON PLASTIC MAILERS (CUT OFF ALL LABELS!!!!) (see details below)

* BEER 4 PACK HOLDER

* BLACK & DECKER SMALL HOME PRODUCTS & APPLIANCES (contact us w/questions) *NEW

* BLACK PLASTIC PLANT CONTAINERS *******NEW - 4" square and round black pots 6 pk seedlings (see details below)

* BREAD BAG PLASTIC TABS ******* little square ones (see details below)

* BURT'S BEES PRODUCTS

* CHOPSTICKS (see details below)

* CORK (see details below)

* DUNKIN DONUTS COFFEE BAGS ******** NEW

* EGG CARTONS CLEAN (see details below)

* EMPTY PRESCRIPTION BOTTLES (see details below)

* GILLETTE (Any razor blade brand; any razor handles or packaging) = Terracycle

* GoGo squeeZ® POUCHES (Any squeeze pouch brand -- applesauce, yogurt, etc)= Terracycle *******NEW

* HEAD AND SHOULDER BOTTLES = Terracycle

* LATE JULY SNACK BAGS = Terracycle

* MASCARA WANDS = Wands for Wildlife (see details below)

* PLASTIC FILM (Clean, see visual guide, if it stretches its probably good, if it crinkles its trash) (see details below)

* PANTENE BOTTLES = Terracycle

* REUSABLE BAGS *******NEW (see details below)

* ROYAL CANIN PLASTIC PET FOOD BAGS (no cans) = Terracycle

* SOLO CUPS Recycle #6, rigid plastic cups = Terracycle *******NEW

* SPRAY BOTTLE PARTS ******* = Terracycle *******NEW

* TERRA CHIP BAGS Clean & Dry = Terracycle

* TOM'S OF MAINE (ANY brand of toothpaste tube, deodorant, toothbrushes, mouthwash bottles, toothbrush packaging) = Terracycle

* TYVEK ENVELOPES (see details below)

* WELEDA® personal care packaging = Terracycle *******NEW

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****WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE ITEMS IF THEY ARE NOT PREPARED PROPERLY.

BRING YOUR CLEAN ITEMS LISTED BELOW (Please read details below carefully) AND WE WILL COLLECT ITEMS CURBSIDE IN A SAFE MANNER.

THIS IS A ONE DAY ONLY COLLECTION and POSSIBLY FINAL, SO TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS.

WHY are we doing this? NONE of these items can be recycled in our Single Stream Blue Recycling Bins. This often means these items end up in a landfill or incinerated which causes Greenhouse Gases. This is entirely unnecessary as they can go on to have another life. Did you know that in the first year and a half of the pandemic 3.2 BILLION SINGLE USE PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS WERE USED JUST IN MASSACHUSETTS ALONE despite so many bag bans!

ABOUT OUR TROOP: We are Girl Scout Troop #68277 in Dorchester, and we have worked hard over the years to change policy within Boston, clean our community, and help others learn about sustainability and recycling. Our girls helped pass the Single Use plastic bag ban in Boston, over six years ago and some even received a Community Engagement Award by the City of Boston. We have been a Troop for 13 years, with some of our eldest troop members in their first year of college and another round of girls graduating this year, this may be our final Specialty Recycling Drive. Our push this year and BIG DREAM is to convince the City of Boston to ban styrofoam and styrofoam not included in the bad could easily be incorporated into their Zero Waste Days and have a greater impact, especially regarding Styrofoam. It was never our intention to hold this forever and we have been thrilled by the support of the community over the last 5 years. Please share your words of encouragement and help make this dream a reality.

Our stats: We have diverted 7500 lbs of waste total; 673lbs of that was STYROFOAM!

This is something we can do today to help OUR future!

WE WILL ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING:

ALL THE TERRACYCLE ITEMS MENTIONED ABOVE PLUS

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STYROFOAM = will be recycled on site in East Bridgewater

ALL STYROFOAM MUST BE CLEAN AND DRY!!!

--- ALL STYROFOAM, that is right!

--- including white and those that have colors

--- we accept styrofoam peanuts in bags, not compostable peanuts

--- All rigid styrofoam packaging

--- clean styrofoam egg cartons

--- CLEAN + DRY food-based styrofoam

--- we don't accept flexible semi foamy packing material

Please be careful not to break it up and if you can, please bag it in a large plastic bag.

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REUSABLE BAGS = resused go to food banks, shelters, and senior centers

--- Clean, empty and dry

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PLASTICS FILM* = TREX will become decking (via Star Market near UMASS)

*Plastics must be CLEAN, DRY and FREE of food and organic residue

*Does the plastic stretch? If Yes, we can recycle it. If it makes a crinkles sound, it must go in the trash!

--- SINGLE USE GROCERY BAGS

--- BUBBLE WRAP

--- PLASTIC E-COMMERCE MAILERS (ALL labels cut off before you donate)

--- PRODUCE WRAP (THINK CARROTS, LETTUCE, GRAPES, ETC)

--- ZIPLOC AND OTHER FOOD STORAGE

--- CEREAL BOX LINERS

--- DRY CLEANING BAGS

--- BREAD BAGS

--- NEWSPAPER BAGS

--- AMAZON PLASTIC BLUE & WHITE MAILERS (CUT OFF PAPER LABEL or PEEL OFF)

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EMPTY PRESCRIPTION BOTTLES = recycled (we work with collaborators in Framingham)

--- The containers cannot have any medications in them

--- Keep caps on

--- Please bring any expired or no longer used medications to your local CVS or police station for proper disposal

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MASCARA WANDS = Wands for Wildlife

--- Clean in warm, soapy water to remove residual mascara and dry completely.

--- Do not send if brush is frayed.

--- Only send brush, no tubes.

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BLACK PLASTIC PLANT CONTAINERS = To be reused by local greenhouse

--- 4" square and round black pots 6 pk seedlings

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EGG CARTONS= Will be reused directly by farmers in Vermont

--- Any egg carton, paper, plastic styrofoam

--- Must be clean

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CORK - will be recycled via RECork

--- WINE CORK. Make sure they are kept separate from the other recycling.

--- No plastic corks

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CHOPSTICKS - Reused to make new products with ChopValue in a micro factory in Somerville!

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PLASTIC BREAD TAGS - these will be reused by Danielle Cares for Chairs

- -- those little square ones that close bread bags, carrot bags, etc.

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TYVEK MAILERS

--- must be clean. Any type of tyvek mailers only for now

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Hope to see you there, please follow our guidelines and separate each category when you hand them off.

We will ask you to pull up, unload and then move along, we will have helpers guiding traffic.

Thanks to ReStore, Bill from Ag Hall for letting us host at their site, Star Market on Morrissey Blvd, Insulation Technology, Janelle Nanos, ReVision, Wands for Wildlife, Terracycle, Danielle Cares for Chairs, Elaine Chow with Chop Value, and Lusterity Design + Events!

Host or Publisher CLEAN UP BOSTON and GS TROOP 68277