Waste Reduction: Information & Education
Goal for Hanover Residents: Approach zero waste by 2021
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
NEW: Plastic Pot Recycling! June 18, July 16, August 20
Longacres Nursury, Miracle Mile, Lebanon 8am - Noon
Tap pots free of dirt - No metal hangers, etc.; Stack by size and shape
Sponsored by Sustainable Hanover Recycling Sub-Committee & Longacres
Reduce
Join the Hanover, NH Freecycle Network!
Just click on the picture below
Quick Action - Drink Tap Water
Choosing to drink water from your well or from the Hanover Reservoirs is an easy, cost effective strategy for reducing wasteful plastic bottles.
Americans send about 38 billion plastic bottles to landfills each year. Less than one quarter of these bottles are recycled.
Plastic water bottles are a petroleum product with a large carbon footprint. In addition, producing bottled water consumers twice the amount of water than what is actually sold in the bottle (From Pacific Institute Fact Sheet).
Americans send about 38 billion plastic bottles to landfills each year. Less than one quarter of these bottles are recycled.
Plastic water bottles are a petroleum product with a large carbon footprint. In addition, producing bottled water consumers twice the amount of water than what is actually sold in the bottle (From Pacific Institute Fact Sheet).
Consumption Choices
Join the Local First Alliance
Eat, shop & bank locally!
Visit Green America: Economic action for a just planet.
Eat, shop & bank locally!
Visit Green America: Economic action for a just planet.
Reuse
Quick Action - Closet Shopping
Visit your closet and pull out something you have not worn in a long time - Could you pair it with something different? Embroider something on the collar. How can you take something you already have and re-make it?
Community Yard Sale
Save the Date!!
September 10, 2011
Great deals. Great fun. Great way to clean house.
Recycle
Hanover Recycles
Curbside Recycling
Christmas Tree Recycling
Scrap Metal - Take it to Lebanon Landfill
Complete list for Hanover here.
Quick Action - Bring the following to the Co-op:
Bring #5 yogurt and other containers
Used Corks - They are ground up and turned into the soles of shoes!
E-Waste:
Wincycle in Windsor, VT
Greendisk.com: A great resource for organizations to recycle CD-ROMs and DVDs.
Christmas Tree Recycling
Scrap Metal - Take it to Lebanon Landfill
Complete list for Hanover here.
Quick Action - Bring the following to the Co-op:
Bring #5 yogurt and other containers
Used Corks - They are ground up and turned into the soles of shoes!
E-Waste:
Wincycle in Windsor, VT
Greendisk.com: A great resource for organizations to recycle CD-ROMs and DVDs.
Hazardous Waste
The Upper Valley Household Hazardous Waste Committee has an informative web site that you might find helpful (http://www.uvhhw.org)
2011 Collections for Hanover: Lebanon Solid Waste Facility, July 16 & October 15.
New This Year: Unwanted medicines will be accepted at the collection days, including EpiPens. Please do not pour medicine down the drain - it goes into our drinking water.
2011 Collections for Hanover: Lebanon Solid Waste Facility, July 16 & October 15.
New This Year: Unwanted medicines will be accepted at the collection days, including EpiPens. Please do not pour medicine down the drain - it goes into our drinking water.
Managing Garbage
Composting
Composters, Water Barrels & Kitchen Pails available through Town of Hanover Department of Public Works!
Lebanon Solid Waste Facility
The Lebanon Landfill is available to all Hanover Residents, but you must have a landfill punchcard.
Purchasing Landfill Punchcards
Garage: 298-6486 / Scale House: 298-7872
Purchasing Landfill Punchcards
Garage: 298-6486 / Scale House: 298-7872
Resources & Stories
Local Resources for Household Items:
Cover Home Repair/The ReCover Store, 158 South Main Street, White River Junction. Click here for a list of donations they accept and then sell to others.
Films & Movies:
Garbage: The Revolution Starts at Home. Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home is a feature documentary about how the family household has become one of the most ferocious environmental predators of our time. Concerned for the future of his new baby boy Sebastian, writer and director Andrew Nisker takes an average urban family, the McDonalds, and asks them to keep every scrap of garbage that they create for three months. He then takes them on a journey to find out where it all goes and what it's doing to the world (At the Howe Library, June 23, 2009)
No Impact Man: The book and movie that inspired the No Impact Project (At the Howe Library, Spring 2010). Visit Colin Beavan's blog to find out what he is up to now, after this "guilty liberal" attempted to save the planet by having zero energy impact for one year.
Online Resources:
EPA Consumer Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste - This is a comprehensive and easy to use guide to managing waste.
Internal Link: Actions at Home
Cover Home Repair/The ReCover Store, 158 South Main Street, White River Junction. Click here for a list of donations they accept and then sell to others.
Films & Movies:
Garbage: The Revolution Starts at Home. Garbage! The Revolution Starts at Home is a feature documentary about how the family household has become one of the most ferocious environmental predators of our time. Concerned for the future of his new baby boy Sebastian, writer and director Andrew Nisker takes an average urban family, the McDonalds, and asks them to keep every scrap of garbage that they create for three months. He then takes them on a journey to find out where it all goes and what it's doing to the world (At the Howe Library, June 23, 2009)
No Impact Man: The book and movie that inspired the No Impact Project (At the Howe Library, Spring 2010). Visit Colin Beavan's blog to find out what he is up to now, after this "guilty liberal" attempted to save the planet by having zero energy impact for one year.
Online Resources:
EPA Consumer Handbook for Reducing Solid Waste - This is a comprehensive and easy to use guide to managing waste.
Internal Link: Actions at Home
