by MEC | Mar 20, 2024 | Initiatives, Recycling, Uncategorized
For Earth Day 2024, the Mashpee Environmental Coalition is partnering with the Mashpee Department of Public Works on a combined effort to help reduce waste. A free event — Textile Recycling, Secure Shredding, and Composting — will take place on Saturday, April 20, 2024, from 9am to 1pm at the Mashpee Senior Center, 26 Frank E Hicks Drive. An information sheet can be accessed here.
Since it is now illegal to discard any clothing or textiles in the trash, residents can drop off bags of unwanted, torn, ripped, and stained items including bedding, footwear, handbags, tablecloths, towels, and even stuffed animals – as long as they are clean and dry.
A secure shredding company will also be onsite to safely destroy documents with personal and confidential information.
And given the fact that approximately 30% of household trash is food waste, FREE kitchen scrap buckets will be distributed by the Mashpee Department of Public Works along with information about the Town’s food waste collection at the Transfer Station and/or how to compost at home. Home compost bins (Earth Machine) will also be available for purchase.
by MEC | Sep 4, 2023 | Initiatives, Recycling
MEC’s Textile Recycling Drive on Saturday, August 19th was a success, thanks to all who donated! Between 9am and 1pm on Saturday, August 19th, while cars and trucks continuously streamed through the parking lot at Mashpee Middle-High School to drop off their household hazardous waste products with the Barnstable County staff, close to 60 residents stopped by the MEC-sponsored Bay State Textile trailer and dropped off 2,250 lbs of unwanted textiles.
Our thanks to Mashpee DPW for supporting our efforts — and to everyone who participated by keeping their hazardous waste products out of our waters, and their textiles out of our trash!
by MEC | Jul 9, 2023 | Initiatives, Recycling
The Mashpee Environmental Coalition (MEC) has joined forces with the Mashpee Department of Public Works in an effort to promote textile recycling. Several MEC board members met recently with Catherine Laurent of the Mashpee DPW to discuss how best to get information to residents regarding the now-mandatory recycling of all types of clothing and textiles. An information sheet as well as a new sandwich board sign at the Transfer Station both outline items that, as of November 1, 2022, must now be recycled and not discarded. A Textile Drive, sponsored by MEC, has also been scheduled for Saturday, August 19, 2023, between 9:00am and 1:00pm at the Mashpee Middle/High School in conjunction with the Barnstable County Upper Cape Household Hazardous Waste Collection event.
by MEC | Mar 10, 2023 | Initiatives, Scholarship
PRESS RELEASE: March 2023
The Mashpee Environmental Coalition (MEC) is pleased to announce that a scholarship will again be awarded this year to one or more qualified Mashpee High School seniors. The MEC Scholarship is designed to encourage students who are dedicated to the environment, and who plan to continue their education at a higher education institution. Since the scholarship began in May 2020, thus far five scholarships have been awarded to deserving students.
by MEC | Sep 10, 2020 | Enviromental Data, Initiatives
The Mashpee Environmental Coalition board voted this month to review and expand its website, so more recent town initiatives and assets are highlighted — including Mashpee’s Pollinator Gardens, the Herring and Shellfish Programs, Mashpee Community Garden, Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge, Mashpee Community Park and Veterans Garden, and the Mashpee Environmental Coalition scholarship. With an aim at finding new ways to collaborate, information about local, like-minded organizations will also be expanded to include groups such as Mashpee Clean Waters, Save Popponesset Bay, Citizens for the Protection of Waquoit Bay, and Friends of the Mashpee National Wildlife Refuge.
by MEC | Jan 8, 2020 | Initiatives, Scholarship
PRESS RELEASE November 2019
The Mashpee Environmental Coalition is pleased to announce a new scholarship starting Spring 2020 in support of future environmental leaders. All Mashpee seniors are eligible to apply who attend the Mashpee Middle-High School and who plan to continue their studies full-time at an institution of higher education immediately after high school.
Preference will be given to candidates who are active members of the Mashpee Middle-High School Environmental Club; demonstrated leaders in environmental issues; or students who plan to continue their education with a focus on the environment.
To apply, seniors must complete the Mashpee High School Scholarship Application by the deadline listed on the Mashpee Middle-High School scholarship webpage under “Local Scholarships”. Additional scholarship requirements and details may be found on that site. Scholarship donations may be sent to Mashpee Environmental Coalition, PO Box 274, Mashpee, MA 02649.
