Girl Scout Expanded Specialty Recycling Drive & Afghan Refugee Collection

10 Harvard Street,Boston MA 02124

23 October, 2021

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Please join our 4th & Even More Expanded Specialty Recycling Drive. Help divert resources from our waste stream and create a greener future. Please join 4th and Even More Expanded Specialty Recycling Drive We'll be accepting items below: please review care on how to prepare items. * ALL RIGID STYROFOAM!!!! * WEARABLE AND SCRAP TEXTILES * HALF DOZEN PAPER EGG CARTONS * PLASTIC FILM * CORK * TYVEK ENVELOPES NEWLY ADDED TERRACYCLE ITEMS *Burts Bees -- all packaging *Tom's of Maine - all packaging *Gillette -- razor blades and packaging from any brand of razor. *Rubbermaid -- used plastic tupperware and plastic to-go containers from take out *Head & Shoulders and Pantene hair care products *Late July chip bags *Ocean spray bags (not bottles) *Beer holder four packs (not a Terracycle program, but a bunch of local breweries now recycle them) Also collecting ITEMS for newly arriving AFGHAN REFUGEES.(details below) SUPER IMPORTANT! ****WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE ITEMS IF THEY ARE NOT PREPARED PROPERLY. BRING YOUR CLEAN ITEMS LISTED BELOW (Please read details below carefully) AND WE WILL COLLECT ITEMS CURBSIDE IN A SAFE MANNER. - WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TAKE ITEMS IF THEY ARE NOT PREPARED PROPERLY. THIS IS A ONE DAY ONLY COLLECTION, SO TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS. WHY are we doing this? NONE of these items can be recycled in our Single Stream Blue Recycling Bins which often times means they end up in a landfill or incinerated which causes Greenhouse Gases. This is entirely unnecessary as they can go on to have another life. Did you know that in the last year and a half of the pandemic 2.4 BILLION SINGLE USE PLASTIC GROCERY BAGS HAVE BEEN USED JUST IN MASSACHUSETTS ALONE despite so many bag bans! We are Girl Scout Troop #68277 in Dorchester and we have worked hard over the years to change policy within Boston, clean our community and help others learn about sustainability and recycling. This is something we can do today to help OUR future! WE WILL ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING: PLASTICS* = will become decking *Plastics must be CLEAN, DRY and FREE of food and organic residue - SINGLE USE GROCERY BAGS - BUBBLE WRAP - PLASTIC E-COMMERCE MAILERS - PRODUCE WRAP (THINK CARROTS, LETTUCE, GRAPES, ETC) - ZIPLOC AND OTHER FOOD STORAGE - CEREAL BOX LINERS - DRY CLEANING BAGS - BREAD BAGS - NEWSPAPER BAGS - Those plastic Amazon Mailers that are blue and white - Does the plastic stretch? If so it is one we can accept. TEXTILES = reused and scraps for insulation - ANY REUSABLE CLOTHING - they will be reused - SHOES - they will be reused - ANY TEXTILE SCRAPS - from sewing (please label these scraps as textile scraps on the bag) EGG CARTONS= Will be reused - Paper based HALF DOZEN egg cartons only - no styrofoam please STYROFOAM = will be recycled ALL STYROFOAM MUST BE CLEAN AND DRY!!! - ALL STYROFOAM, that is right! - including white and those that have colors - we accept styrofoam peanuts in bags - All rigid styrofoam packaging - clean styrofoam egg cartons - CLEAN + DRY food-based styrofoam Please be careful not to break it up and if you can, please bag it in a large plastic bag. CORK - will be recycled - WINE CORK. Make sure they are kept separate from the other recycling. TYVEK MAILERS - must be clean. Any type of tyvek mailers only for now At the recycling event we will also be collecting gift cards and items needed by newly-arriving refugees from Afghanistan. You can bring the items LISTED IN SECTION 3 of this link and clearly label that they are NOT for recycling, but for the refugee project. For Info on needed items and other ways to help, visit: www.bit.ly/3mtRSYO Hope to see you there, please follow our guidelines and separate each category when you hand them off. YOU MUST WEAR A MASK WHEN YOU ARE DROPPING ITEMS OFF! We will ask you to pull up, unload and then move along, we will have helpers guiding traffic. You will want to be on 10 Harvard Street with the building on your right. If you cannot attend the Recycling Drive, or donate to the Afghan Refugees, but would like to support our efforts, please consider donating to our Troop to expand our Recycling Offerings. One of our Troop Leader's, Lynne Chevoya is taking donations via venmo @Lynne-Chevoya. Please make sure you make a note 'Troop 68277 Recycling Drive' Thanks to ReStore, Bill from Ag Hall for letting us host at their site, Star Market on Morrissey Blvd, Helpsy www.helpsy.co/, Insulation Technology, Janelle Nanos