Northern Berkshire Solid Waste Management District

Adams, Cheshire, Clarksburg, Florida, Hancock, Hinsdale, Lanesborough, New Ashford, Peru, Savoy, Williamstown and Windsor
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Hancock School Earth Day

 

 

 

Hancock Elementary School

Crickets and Kindergarten Learn About Recycling and Composting

 

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The EPA estimates that 66% of the materials we trash every day could be recycled.  What's in your trash? 

Take a minute to check out WHAT WE RECYCLE.

 

Time it takes for a steel can to biodegrade................................500 years

Time it takes for a glass jar to biodegrade...............................3,000 years

Time it takes for a newspaper to biodegrade...............................50 years

Time it takes for a plastic milk jug to biodegrade.....................it never will

Time it takes for you to recycle these items..........................a few seconds!

CAN'T BEAR TO THROW YOGURT CUPS IN THE TRASH?

BUY STONYFIELD FARM'S YOGURT!

 

We currently have no market to recycle #5 containers. If you are out of ways to reuse your Stonyfield Farm yogurt cups you can send your CLEAN Stonyfield Farm cups to them, and they’ll be sure they get recycled. Send them to: Stonyfield Farm, 10 Burton Drive, Londonderry, NH 03053



 

Northern Berkshire Solid Waste Management District

20 East Street, Adams, MA 01220

 

(413)  743-8208