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“Does your business recycle everything it can? Earn an “Our Business Recycles!” window cling to show customers you are doing your part to reduce waste.
To earn the window cling, each business must meet the following requirements:
• Be a business located in New Bedford.
• Have recycling containers with fewer than 3 contaminants. Contaminants include all items other than bottles, cans, jugs, jars, paper, and cardboard, as listed on this flyer.
• Have waste baskets with fewer than 3 recyclable items.
• Have a way to recycle cardboard. This could be by participating in the City’s business cardboard collection program, having a properly used cardboard dumpster, or by being able to fit the cardboard in your recycling cart(s).
If you think your business deserves the recognition, contact us and we will visit to verify the requirements are met. Also, starting in March, staff from the City of New Bedford and the Greater New Bedford Regional Refuse Management District will partner with students from UMass Dartmouth to visit businesses. Images of you applying your window cling may be posted on New Bedford’s social media pages.
If your business is not currently eligible, you can:
• Increase recycling – Arrange private collection through your hauler or participate in the City’s program to recycle bottles, cans, jugs, jars, paper, and cardboard.
• Ensure cardboard gets recycled- Arrange private collection through your hauler or participate in the City’s program. Small to medium size New Bedford businesses can join the city’s cardboard recycling program for free.
“What a great opportunity for businesses to display that they are ensuring that bottles, cans, jugs, jars, paper, and cardboard, which can be turned into new items are not going into the Crapo Hill Landfill! Our local landfill provides us with a low-cost disposal option, but it has limited space. We all need to do our part to reduce waste and recycle the correct items,” said Jennifer Vieira, Director of Facilities & Fleet Management.
If you have questions, please email Marissa@gnbrrmdistrict.org or call (508) 979-1493. For additional information, visit New Bedford Recycling on Facebook, Instagram, and Nextdoor, or follow @NBRecycling on Twitter.”
