This subcommittee provides support to the town recycling committee and educates the community on sound recycling practices.

 

REDUCE

 

Beginning September 1, 2009 the towns of Hamilton and Wenham will begin a 3-month trial Carry-In, Carry-Out pilot program for all parks and fields. The Carry In, Carry Out concept is very simple: everything you bring into the park or field, you bring back home. For the duration of the pilot program, from September 1^st through December 1^st, trash barrels will be removed from all parks and fields in the two towns.

 

The benefits are easy to understand:

• Less litter

• Fewer insects, skunks and other wildlife rummaging in the trash

• Fewer recyclables going into the waste stream

• Less time spent on trash pick up leaving more time for park and field improvements

 

National and State parks including Ipswich Wildlife Sanctuary, Moseley Woods, and the Crane Estate and Beach are implementing Carry In, Carry Out with great success. For the concept to succeed in Hamilton and Wenham, the cooperation of all sports league coaches and players in the two towns will be essential. If the program meets with success it would be rolled-out permanently in both towns.

 

Keeping our community’s open spaces clean is a healthy, environmental and economically smart plan. Please join in the effort to keep Hamilton and Wenham parks and playing fields clean, safe, comfortable, and inviting for all.

 

For further information on this pilot program, please contact Zach Benseley: zbensley@bensleyandcompany.com, Alisa Greco: alisa_greco@yahoo.com, or Sue Patrolia: Spatrolia@verizon.net.

 

Take Action

Green your electricity by signing-up through National Grid's GreenStart Program. This program enables you to support the development of renewable energy through your electric bill. For an added cost of approximately $5 to $12 per month, you can support the development of new renewable energy resources.

 

Check out Carbonrally to learn how you can reduce global warming by taking quick & easy challenges.  ou can compete with others in your area and around the world.

 

Click here for the ten_things things you can take to save money and energy, reduce climate change emissions (CO2) and reliance on foreign oil, and improve our air quality and quality of life.

 

REUSE

 

NEW Hamilton-Wenham GREEN reusable shopping bags for sale! We now have a reusable shopping bag for sale made from recycled material and printed with our logo and the logos of our four sponsors: Carbonrally, Gifts of Green, Green Meadows Farm, and the Hamilton Poice Department.  You can buy the bags at Green Meadows Farm: http://www.gmfarm.com/ and Giggles toy store on Railroad Avenue in Hamilton (978-468-5800)

 

Check out this site to find out more about why we need to stop using plastic bags.  Thanks to Mary Lewis for this link.

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/MULTIMEDIA02/80505016

 

 

RECYCLE

 

Hamilton is trying to become one of the first towns in the Commonwealth to offer curbs-side weekly compost pick-up. To sign-up contact hamilton_compost@yahoo.com. Read a recent article in the Salem Evening News to learn more about this exciting program.

 

The new waste reduction program in Hamilton began on March 12th: Refuse and Recycle Info-2008.pdf

Hotline number: (978) 468-5515

If you would like to recycle your recycle bin, as you move to bigger containers with the new program, drop them off at the nearest school.  They can always use more.

 

Brick Ends Farm takes yard and household compost.  Call to see how you can drop off.

 

 

21 Things You Didn't Know You Can Recycle

 

Recycle clothing, household goods, share plants, you name it. What you no longer need may be just what someone else is looking for. Good sources are Hamilton-Wenham Freecycle and Beverly Freecycle. If you are looking to sell goods or services check out: Craigslist.

 

 

BUKER SCHOOL RECYCLING (the first program this subcommittee put together)

 

At the morning assembly Linda asked all the Buker students to decide if a variety of different items including snack and juice cartons could be recycled.  Students gave each item a thumbs up or down to tell Linda whether to put it in a recycling bin or the regular trash barrel, and said they were surprised so many things could be recycled.  Then twelve Fifth graders distributed the bins to the teachers and everyone clapped.  Students and teachers seemed enthusiastic and appreciative.  We also had a message about Hamilton-Wenham GREEN in the Buker email newsletter.

 

Together we made a difference.  This was such a success, and accomplished in such a short time, that we’re going to see if the other schools might be interested in having us provide bins.

 

Thanks to all of you for your help.

 

 

In late October Linda Mastrianni, our teacher contact at Buker Elementary School, told us she planned an assembly about recycling for Thursday, but that neither Town Office had any bins.  Linda and her students needed twelve, one for each classroom.  We asked and you delivered!  By Thursday morning we had gathered 10 bins, which added to the two Linda had, made up the requisite dozen.  Several people contributed bins they no longer needed because they are using trash barrels identified by the free Recycling banner.  Others gave new ones they had purchased, and then the Town of Hamilton found it had 4 bins it could donate.