Attention: This information session will be of great interest to homeowners, homebuilders, restaurant managers and other businesses as well as educators, town officials and everyone interested in saving money, creating locally-based jobs and promoting clean, green and sustainable communities.
Falmouth, MA: On Wednesday, March 23, The Falmouth Climate Action Team (FCAT) is hosting a multi-media presentation and discussion to focus attention on the economic, environmental, and social prospects within the new State Master Plan for handling of solid waste. The discussion, running from 7 to 8:30 pm in the Hermann Room at the Falmouth Public Library, is free and open to the public.
Issued by the Department of Environmental Protection, the new state “Pathway to Zero Waste” master plan for the next ten years asks that we all make a fundamental change in the way we think about our trash as we work toward the zero waste goal. We are being asked to start thinking of the waste stream as a closed loop, so that after use, most of our discards will be sorted and returned for remanufacturing or reuse. In other words, "our waste is not waste until it has been wasted." Perhaps we will change the name of our town dump from Waste Management Facility to Resource Management Facility.
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To learn about the factors that are driving these changes, their financial implications and our individual roles in this effort, you are invited to the discussion which is co-sponsored by FCAT, the Falmouth Solid Waste Advisory Committee (SWAC), and Sierra Club - Cape Cod Group.
Lynne Pledger, solid waste expert with Clean Water Action, is the featured speaker. Her slide show presentation will cover zero waste practices such as source reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting/digestion. Lynne is solid waste director of Clean Water Action, Massachusetts. She is also coordinator of the Massachusetts Product Steward Council and is a member of the national Sierra Club Zero Waste Team.
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The Falmouth Climate Action Team (FCAT) is a grassroots group that formed in 2007 to call attention to climate change and to support the goal of the “Climate Protection Action Plan for Falmouth” to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent in 5 years. FCAT action outreach presentations, workshops, and demonstrations encourage community efforts to shrink our carbon footprint, save energy, create community-based jobs and promote equity as we move toward the Greening of Falmouth.
