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November 24, 2019, 10am - 2pm: Hard-to-Recycle Items Collection at The Indoor Farmers Market held in the YMCA

  • YMCA 497 Main Street Melrose, MA, 02176 United States (map)

Hard-to-Recycle Item Collection

Sally Frank’s Farmers Market on November 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the YMCA on Main Street. TerraCycle Flyer (PDF)

List of acceptable items:

Personal Care Items:

• All brands of mouthwash bottles and caps, deodorant containers and caps, toothpaste tubes and caps, soap packaging, floss containers, and toothbrushes (Remove excess product)

• All brands of blades and razors (including disposable units and replaceable-blade cartridge units) and rigid plastic and flexible plastic packaging 

• All brands of contact lenses and blister packs (no cardboard packaging)

Household Items:

• Fruit/yogurt squeeze pouches with screw tops

• Foil-lined granola bar wrappers

Brand-Specific Items (Remove all excess product) :

• Arm & Hammer plastic pouches 

• Barilla Ready Pasta pouches

• Brita (filters, dispensers, pitchers, packaging, bottles, and bottle filters)

• Burt’s Bees

• Calbee Snacks (Harvest Snaps)

• Dawn, Olay, Old Spice soft packs

• Entenmann’s Little Bites and Minis pouches

• Eos

• Febreze Aerosol/Febreze Air Care 

• Hasbro (All toys and games, including: board games, electronic toys & games, metal/plastic/wood toys & games, action figures, dolls, plush toys, etc.)

• Herbal Essences

• NOW food and supplement pouches

• Oxiclean plastic pouches

• Weleda Skin Food packaging

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