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December 2022 Newsletter
New TerraCycle Collection, E-Waste Event, Styrofoam Recycling Event, Textile Event Success, 2023 Waste Management Schedule
Wishing you a wonderful holiday season!
New TerraCycle Collection
Salem has a new TerraCycle collection! The "Rubbermaid Food Storage" bin at City Hall Annex (1st Floor) accepts ALL brands of the items shown. (Notice that black plastic to-go containers are accepted!)

Divert these items from the trash, and we'll mail them to TerraCycle for recycling.

TerraCycle is a social enterprise Eliminating the Idea of Waste®. In 21 countries, they tackle the issue from many angles. We have found that nearly everything we touch can be recycled, and collect typically non-recyclable items through national, first-of-their-kind recycling platforms.
They make it possible to recycle difficult items that are unable to be recycled curbside.
Electronic Waste Event
Saturday December 17th
8 am - 12 pm

Salem residents & property owners (with ID or tax bill) can recycle e-waste quarterly at Salem High School, 77 Willson St.

Please stay in your vehicle the whole time and have your items ready to unload in your trunk, truck bed or hatchback – items will not be unloaded from car seats. Please have your cash or check ready.

RECYCLE ANYTHING WITH A PLUG
* $20 for each TV or monitor
* $20 for each Freon appliance – fridge, AC, freezer, dehumidifier
* $20 for exercise equipment – treadmill, bike, elliptical, etc.
(Cash or check payable to vendor – RMG Enterprise)

* All other electronics FREE: computer tower, laptop, tablet, cell phone, small appliances, household electronics, printer, fax, VCR, CD player, etc.

Please NO commercial drop offs or white goods (including washers, dryers, stoves). Call Waste Management at 800-972-4545 to schedule a free white good curbside pick-up.

NOTE: E-items containing mercury, along with CFL bulbs, can be brought to Salem DPS, 5 Jefferson Ave., during City business hours.
Styrofoam Recycling Event
Saturday January 14th
10 am -1pm
Beverly High School

SalemRecycles, the Beverly Waste Reduction Committee, The City of Lynn, and the Danvers Recycling & Energy Department join forces to host a Styrofoam Recycling Collection, for Salem, Beverly, Lynn and Danvers residents.

This will be a drive-through event at Beverly High School 100 Sohier Road

* PLEASE BRING only white, rigid, expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam).

* We cannot accept packing peanuts, soft foam, or food service containers (meat trays, clamshells, Styrofoam cups).

Save That Stuff will collect and recycle this material. While Styrofoam cannot be recycled curbside, Save That Stuff has densifiers that can process the Styrofoam for recycling.
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Textile Recycling Event Success!
SalemRecycles hosted the Textile & TerraCycle Drive at Riley Plaza on Saturday November 19th.

There were over 360 residents who participated by bringing clothing, household textiles and TerraCycle items to be recycled.

The HELPSY truck was filled THREE times and a whopping 9,237 lbs of textiles were collected!

Thank you to all who made this event such a wonderful success!
2023 Waste Management Schedule
Waste Management will be offering curbside tree collection on the following weeks

(please make sure trees are bare, with no decorations)

December 26 - Dec 30
January 2 - January 6
January 9 - January 13
















Please visit the Recycling and Trash page to view the 2023 Waste Management calendar.
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