1. Zero Waste In Andover?
Candy Dann, 10-11-13

2. What Can I
Recycle?
• Single-Stream
Recycling
means put all
your
recyclables
together…

3. What About ….?
YES
• All Paper and Cardboard
– Envelopes with windows
– Spiral bound notebooks
– Paperback and phone books
• All glass, metal, plastic and
paper containers
– Bottles, cans, plastic jars
– Milk, juice, soup cartons
– Juice boxes
– Yogurt, butter tubs
NO
• Plastic bags – save for the
grocery store
• Styrofoam – save for UPS or
Zero Waste Day
• Juice pouches
• String, wire, cables

4. Does It Really Get Recycled?

6. Why No Plastic Bags?

7. Clothes in any condition
Shoes, pocketbooks, belts, flip flops,
underwear
Torn, stained, worn clothes
Stuffed animals
Linens, towels, sheets
No wet, oily, smelly or moldy items
Clothing Recyclers Want It All -
the “good, the bad and the ugly”!

8. Anything More?
Food Waste is the Next Horizon
Backyard Composting
• Vegetable peelings
• Fruit
• Bread
• Napkins, paper towels
Town will order some composters at discounted prices if there
are pre-paid orders.
Secret hint: store up 2-3 bags of leaves in the fall next to your
compost bin and always add a handful when you add food.

9. Beyond Backyard Composting
• Curbside collection of food waste
– Hamilton and Wenham – doing it now
– Manchester and Ipswich - under consideration
– Cambridge, Newton - planning pilot tests
– Arlington, Winchester, Rockport – private firms
offer to collect organics from individual household
– All Andover schools will soon be separating food
waste
– All Commercial “Generators” of large amounts will
have to separate food waste – grocery stores, etc

10. School Food Waste Diversion
Now diverting food waste:
• Andover High
• Wood Hill Middle
• High Plain Elementary
Starting this year:
• West Elementary
• West Middle
• Bancroft Elementary

11. ResultsStudents
teaching other
students
Parents, volunteers,
teachers, staff, and
students working
together

12. Students InvolvedAHS Students led
the Middle School
Assembly High Plain Elementary Art students took
recycling into their art classes

13. Wood Hill Middle School
9-13-13
Trash
12%
Liquids
15%
Rec
8%
Food, Trays
65%
Trash
Liquids
Rec
Food, Tra
ys

14. High Plain Elementary
9-13-13
Trash
5%!!
Liquids
21%
Rec
14%
Food, Trays
60%
Trash
Liquids
Rec
Food, Tr
ays

15. Other Good Things In AHS
• Environmental Student Internship Class

16. What To Do With The Miscellaneous
Waste?
• Andover’s Zero Waste Day, Lazarus House, Project
Home Again accept:
– Furniture, household items, decorations
– Clothes, linens
• ZWD also takes:
– Reusable construction materials
– Bikes, toys, books, and styrofoam
• Drop boxes at West Elementary School takes:
– Books (hardcover and paperback), CDs, DVDs,
• Best Buy takes
– Electronics, TVs,
• Staples takes
– Computers, printers, and related peripherals

17. Have We Forgotten Anything?
Is This The Future Of The Trash Can?