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Tour the Wellesley Recycling & Disposal Facility

October 17, 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

October 17, 2022

4 pm Wellesley RDF 169 Great Plain Avenue, Wellesley MA

You are invited to tour the Wellesley RDF facility

All ages welcome.

The Wellesley RDF is not simply the place where our trash goes. It generates revenue for the town (over $741,000 in FY 2021) Learn about the source-separated model – meaning residents separate the material – that Wellesley has been using for decades, which results in high quality recyclable products with a very low contamination rate.

With trash disposal costs predicted to increase as much as 40% in the next 2-5 years as landfill capacity diminishes, learn about the Food Waste Program (estimated at approximately 20% of household generated waste) that converts these scraps into electricity, heat, liquid fertilizer, bio char/animal bedding or as ingredients to produce high grade compost.

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