DEVENS ECO-EFFICIENCY CENTER

Helping area businesses and organizations reduce their environmental impacts and operating costs through education, collaboration and technical assistance.

Recycling Services

Recycle – Follow the Law and Save Money

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s Waste Ban requires proper recycling of a range of waste streams. Enforcement activities of this law (310 CMR 19.017) are increasing and solid waste haulers are prevented from dumping loads that include a significant amount of recyclable materials, including glass bottles and jars, metal containers, plastic containers with a recycle symbol, paper, cardboard, paperboard products, and batteries (lead-acid, rechargeable, and button).

 

In house recycling programs can facilitate compliance with this regulation as well as decrease a firm’s waste management costs by reducing the amount of solid waste that needs to be disposed. Programs that capture a significant amount of paper or plastic materials could even generate some revenue!

 

 

Devens Eco-Efficiency Center Can Help You

Thanks in part to a Solid Waste Management Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development Utilities Program, a wide range of cost-savings services are available to Devens-based businesses, free of charge.  These include:

 

· Info sessions and workshops to bring representatives of area establishments together to create cost-effective “milk-run” services to collect wooden pallets and food waste throughout Devens

· Audits to identify recyclable or reusable waste streams and production efficiency opportunities;

· Waste reduction plans that describe and prioritize strategies to decrease the amount of material sent to the landfill;

· Establishment or expansion of recycle programs, including vendor negotiations, procedures, signage;

· 96-gallon recycle totes and desk-side saddle baskets for collecting paper;

· Educational materials and outreach activities to facilitate support of recycling programs; and

· Diversion of reusable materials in the waste stream with identification of reuse opportunities.

 

The Eco-Efficiency Center will also provide this type of assistance to establishments outside of Devens as part of their EcoStar membership or for a nominal fee.

 

To learn more about the above listed waste-reduction services contact Dona Neely at donaneely@ecostardevens.com or 978-772-8831 x3304.

 

 

 

Other Recycling Services:

 

Devens Recycling Drop-Off

99 Buena Vista Street

Devens, MA. 01434

(978) 772-1864

 

The drop-off center (located in the front parking lot along Buena Vista) allows Devens residents, businesses and employees as well as other local surrounding businesses and residents to dispose of a wide variety of items in a timely manner and at little or no cost.  The site is accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

 

 

 

Entities located in Devens can take advantage of recycling services based at the DPW, 99 Buena Vista Street. A compactor for paper and cardboard and a container for plastics, bottles and cans are located in the front parking lot. E-waste can also be brought, by appointment, for disposal with a small fee. More information about accepted materials can be found at

http://www.devenscommunity.com/sites/default/files/devens_recycling.pdf.