City Schools to Get Single-Stream Recycling
With a new collection vendor, officials want Boston Public Schools to recycle on a larger scale this year.
Boston Public Schools are switching to single-stream recycling this year to decrease their overall waste. With single-stream recycling, students, teachers and other school staff wouldn’t have to sort paper from cardboard from plastic. Instead, they would be able to put all recyclable materials in one container. Phoebe Beierle, who the city hired this summer to install recycling and environmental programs at schools, said most city schools would have the new recycling system by November. The city started distributing 64-gallon "Big Blue" recycling carts at houses and small apartment buildings July 2009. “They’re doing it in their homes,” Beierle said of the public school students. “They should be doing it in the schools.” How single-stream …
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