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 Posted - 02/27/2008 : 3:52:37 PM
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I'm sure everyone received this announcement in the mail but I have been a big advocate for recycling and I wanted to point out that you can recycle those annoying-(terrible for the environment)plastic bags into these totes where you could not in the green bins. This is a great program started by former Mayor Hanlon and I commend Mayor DeMaria and Mr. Norton for making this available to everyone in a timely manner.
Dear City of Everett Residents,
The City of Everett and RecycleBank have partnered in a plan to improve our city’s recycling program. RecycleBank provides a single-stream rewards based recycling program. Single-Stream means you will no longer need to sort your recycling! The City will begin this program as a pilot on the Tuesday recycling route only. The city will provide each resident of this route with with a burgundy wheeled tote at no cost.
RecycleBank provides a single stream recycling service; this means there is no need to separate paper from the commingled recycling. All recycled materials are placed in the burgundy RecycleBank tote, including plastics 1-7, glass, aluminum, steel and tin cans, plastic milk and detergent containers, empty aerosol cans, newspaper, cardboard, phone books, junk mail, cereal boxes, mixed paper and paper bags. As part of the collection cycle, the tote, which has an embedded identifi cation tag, is weighed and emptied.
RecycleBank Points are earned based on the amount of recycling and can be redeemed for rewards at hundred of national and local businesses. You can visit You must be logged in to see this link. to redeem these points or call 1-888-727-2978. Some of the participation businesses include, Starbucks, RiteAid, Whole Foods, Borders, 1-800 Flowers, and Dunkin Donuts.
Recycling more, thereby diverting materials from the regular trash into the recycling stream, reduces the cost of trash disposal. The automated tote collection system makes it safer for the Capitol Waste employees out on the road as well.
Be sure to check out the RecycleBank website at You must be logged in to see this link.
If you have any questions about the program please feel free to call Mr. Norton, Recycling Coordinator for the city at (617) 394- 5004. Thank you for participating in this exciting new program.
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