Let's Talk Trash
Articles from the Lexington Minuteman, written by Laura Dickerson
Sylvia, used with permission: http:www.nicolehollander.com
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- Plastic recycling numbers, environmentally friendly wood, CRT collection Aug. 6
- Unwashable recyclables, charities that will pick up items
- Incandescent vs. energy saver fluorescent light bulbs, old toasters
- Pet Wastes, large furniture, wrapping paper, Christmas Trees
- CDs & floppies, curbside yard wastes, final Hazardous Household Waste Day for year.
- Penalty for not recycling? scrap metal, recycled paper for school.
- Clothing donations, fluorescent lights.
- Tires, music cassettes & tapes, CRT Collection.
- Freecycle-giving things away, food papers, fireworks.
- Prescription medicines, mercury, school papers.
- Trash in storm drains. Make a composter from a garbage can.
- Trash boxes on Patriots Day. Recycling for lazy people.
- Where to take good clothing. Lawns without pesticides.
- What to do with CRTs. Additional recycling bins. Missed pick-ups
- Donating old cell phones, donating old but working TVs
- Soda gas chargers, Trash used to generate electricity
- Christmas Trees, shredded paper
- Carpets, waxed containers, worm composting, electronics drop-off
- Public recycling containers, plastic bags, Christmas trees
- Air conditioners & other appliances, a composting class on October 7
- Lexington's trash tonnage, reducing the amount of our trash
- Recycling for businesses, yard wastes
- Can and jar lids, drinking glasses
- Don't recycle paper in plastic bags, disposal of ice packs
- Effects of budget cuts, Discovery Day recycling, recycling at end of school year
- Radio with tubes, excavated dirt, staples, percent of recycled content
- Substitute for recycle bin, fireworks, rain barrels, use both sides of paper
- Recycling on Patriots' Day, cardboard dumpster full, pesticides
- Bulky items, white goods
- Rugs, futon mattress, white goods, Clean Environment Fund
- Container lids, lithium batteries, Christmas trees.
- Light bulbs, storm policy for trash pickup, spring cleaning, Hazardous Waste and CRT Collection April 26, purchasing carefully
- Graph of how we're doing, cell phones, LCDs vs CRT monitors, recycling wet paper,
- Rags, styrofoam, carbon tetrachloride fire extinguishers, milk cartons, Christmas trees
- Basic Recycling Rules
- Sneakers with lights, New Year's Resolutions
- Spray cans, Pet bedding material, white goods, baking soda cleaner recipie, searching for old columns.
- October trash tonnage, cardboard recycling rules, producing less trash at Christmas
- Responsibly decommissioning CRTs, food waste, mercury thermometers
- Trash & recycling tonnage chart, pressure treated wood, compact disks
- Removing rust stains, drain cleaners
- August trash data, fluorescent bulbs, office paper in town buildings, good stuff in the trash
- Next CRT collection, yard waste
- Trash & recycling chart, perfume, buying school supplies of recycled material.
- Trash & recycling figures, small business recycling, portable phones, old Trash Talk columns, propane tanks
- Tape on Cardboard boxes, dry cleaners, violations of recycling rules
- Tying up cardboard, tyvek, Hazardous Waste & CRT Collections, button batteries
- basketball hoop pole, yard waste schedule, storm drains
- Smoke detectors, toner cartridges, shredded paper
- Newspaper plastic bags, mercury thermometer exchange, garlic mustard
- Cardboard, computer donations, how to help bring back PAYT
- Newspapers as mulch, cost of rain barrels
- The PAYT halt, CRT collection April 20, curbside yard waste pickups, saving water
- Wallpaper, construction debris, CRT Collection, Hartwell Ave. Compost site
- Review of PAYT information
- Pressure treated wood. recycle bottles or return them, organic gardening
- Bicycles, styrofoam, mercury, "organic" labels
- Finding recycling number on plastics, kitchen cabinets, computer parts, date of haz. waste collection
- Cardboard, snowshovel, cell phone
- Rugs, styrofoam peanuts, old batteries, unwanted catalogues
- Recycling bin weight limit, using composter in winter, buying recycled paper
- Reducing solid waste, aluminum pie pans, foam trays, aluminum ladder, white goods, how to organize your bins
- List of organizations accepting your unwanted items
- Pumpkins, wood ash, plastic items, dog waste, egg cartons
- Mercury thermometer exchange, fire extinguishers, worm composting, yard waste pickup, plastic lids, fall CRT collection
- Corrugated cardboard, plastic with no number, plastic bags, greeting cards, microwave oven, VCR, CB radio
- Tyvek, cardboard food containers, metal juice can ends, firewood, rejected plastic
- Coat hangers, recycling by businesses, metal lids, how much to put in a trash barrel, extra recycle bins
- Rugs, yard waste, one bin for paper and one for containers, no recycling drop-off
- Egg cartons revisited, cups, books, ice cream containers, using two recycle bins
- Milk & juice containers, types of paper, old printer
- Mattresses, no limit on amount of recyclables, where to get recycling bins, more information
- Ink cartridges, Hartwell Ave. hours, optimizing trash disposal
- Office paper, shredded paper, digital thermometer, mercury in fluorescent lights, additional recycle bin, yard wastes that missed the collection date
- Air conditioners, propane tanks, asphalt, recycling rules online
- Using barrels for sticks, recyclable paper types, recyclable glass, speed up your recycling
- Using PAYT tags, rechargeable batteries, moving refrigerators, lawn mower, street sand
- Wet paper, downed branches, Pay As You Throw
- Rags, paper towels for microwaving, motor oil, computer monitors
- Plastic grocery bags, pizza boxes, scrap metal
- Bags vs. Tags, appliances, plastic bags
- Trash reduction, use of brown grocery bags
- Batteries, TVs, plastic recycle numbers, efficient recycling
- Pay-As-You-Throw
- Diapers, landfills vs. incinerators, Christmas trees, mercury
- Christmas trash, recycling rates, egg cartons, corrugated cardboard, CRTs, batteries
- Plastic grocery bags, jar lids, shredded paper, leaves, carbon paper, junk mail, use less stuff
- Kitty litter, plastic boxes, mercury
- Propane tanks, benefits of recycling, poster contest
- CRTs, rocks, wormy apples, yard waste, waste tonnage
- Tires, where recycled items go, a recycling card
- CRTs, recycling calendar, yard waste, mercury, hazardous waste
- Printer cartridges, home repair scraps, clothing, recycling hotline
- Recycling containers, plastic utensils, corrugated cardboard
- A Trip to the Recycling Facility.
- Hazardous waste site, fluorescent lights, composting tips
- Recycling bins on the sidewalks, cardboard, mercury
- Rules for year waste, TVs, Office paper, insecticides
- Newspaper bags, milk cartons, gray water
- Plastic bags, construction debris, chemical free lawns, used oil, TVs and computer monitors
- Yard wastes and packaging
- Recycling info. for new residents, mercury thermometers, and envelopes with windows
- Earth Day: Doing something for the environment.
- Flower pots, aseptic packages, cell phones, egg cartons, and composting cardboard.
- Hazardous wastes and new ideas for elderly people
- Buying things made from recycled materials, and recycling from condos
- Paper bags, help for the elderly, excess telephone books and junk mail
- Composting and construction debris
- Batteries, plastics and trash policy
- Styrofoam peanuts, smoke detectors and plastic bags
- Recycling Computers and Christmas Trees
- Questions and answers about recycling
- More Questions and answers about recycling