In Andover:
can one recycle biweekly?
will recyclables be collected, including dates and streets?
does one dispose of special materials?
is it important for Andover to recycle?

Recycling Committee:
Tony Connell
Candy Dann
Don Gottfried
Marya Lundgren
Alanna McKee
Jan Niebudek
Glenn Rogers
Scott Stecher

Public Works:
Jack Petkus, Director
Sandy Gerraughty

978-623-8350

• What is the air quality of Essex County according to the Environmental Defense Fund)?

• Recycling information primarily for businesses, but also individuals, from WasteCap of Massachusetts; it discusses recycling and buying recycled products and links to related sites.

• Efforts across the ten states of the Northeast Recycling Coalition (NERC)
• From The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide:
• Commonly recycled materials
• Plastics recycling -- American Plastics Council
• Guide to hard-to-recycle materials
• Mercury Contamination in Fish
• Flourescent Lights and Mercury
• What Devices Contain Mercury?
• Read about Styrofoam and Dow Chemical's recycling of it
• Recycling appliances by the Steel Recycling Institute 
• Collective Good mobile phone recycling programs
• Organic Lawns
• NOFA Guide to Organic Lawn Care

Government -- State and Federal

• Topics and other recycling issues by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
• Main site of  the Massachusetts DEP Recycling
• Guidelines for recycling computer monitors and television sets  from the Massachusetts
    Department of  Environmental Protection
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Disposing of Appliances with Refrigerants, according to EPA

  Other Organizations:

  • National Recycling Coalition
  • MassRecycle, Inc.    (The Massachusetts Recycling Coalition)
  • Phillips Academy Recycling Program
  •   -- a grassroots online group of people giving (& getting) free stuff.
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