Framingham Too! We Can Do It.

I hope you'll bear with me.  For the past three years, I've been advocating for more comprehensive and sensible outdoor recycling in Natick, Framingham, and Wayland (even at Cochituate State Park - DCR).  We've had some success: Natick has one of the best outdoor recycling programs in the entire country w/ over 100 MassCor Cage Recycle Bins "buddied up" to nearly every municipal trash barrel (downtown, parks, fields, common, playgrounds, everywhere.)  Wayland has a similar system w/ a blue recycle toter next to most of its outdoor trash toters.  You would not believe the amount of recyclable plastic (aluminum and glass) that fills these containers.  I've established over 100 BigHeartLittleFeet "recycle buddy bins" throughout these communities to try to persuade officials that it makes sense.  My logo is simple: no outdoor trash barrel without a recycle buddy bin.  There is so such an enormous on-the-go beverage phenomenon gripping our society, that the waste is frightening.  Someday we hope to persuade folks to use washable and reusable containers and drink tap water (which is more rigorously regulated and safer) than most of these crazy modern drinks, (Gatorade, Arizona Ice Tea, horrible energy drinks, etc.)  We have a lot of work ahead of us.  At least we have to reduce our human footprint and not throw all this stuff in the trash.  Simple as that.  
Please help me nudge Framingham officials to adopt the Natick outdoor recycling model.  With some of those Green Community funds recently award to Framingham (a few million $) we could establish this without too much difficulty. Call (508-740-9949) or email me (bpconaway@gmail.com), or check me out: lakecochituate.com, and my blog on Natick Patch http://natick.patch.com/groups/pat-conaways-blog/p/trashfree-natick-in-2014-the-first-community-in-m....  Thanks, Pat