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FAS FreeCycle is coming to the Science Center lawn on Tuesday, 8-15-09 from 11 AM - 2 PM! Co-sponsored by FAS, the Office for Sustainability and Harvard FMO Recycling, the FreeCycle event will offer OFFICE SUPPLIES, small FURNITURE, and KITCHEN UTENSILS for office use! Bring your unwanted but reusable folders, staplers, scissors, paper, mugs, silverware, and any other office equipment you don't want (including both working and non-working computers) and share with members of the University community (FAS affiliates or not). We will remove and recycle anything that is left behind at the end of the day!
From John Harvard’s archives..."Before you are through, Useth Side Two!"
FREE SURPLUS FURNITURE and other items are available at our Recycling and Surplus Center in Allston every Thursday! If donating furniture, please instruct your movers to contact us 24 hours before delivery rob_gogan at harvard dot edu so that we can receive and display everything safely. We can take material only from Harvard buildings which use our waste and recycling services, and we can never receive any trash or hazardous waste. Please keep in mind that parking space limitations force us to be STRICT ABOUT PARKING RULES. Please respect our neighbors' need to maintain safe traffic flow around the Recycling and Surplus Center. When here for Thursday's Surplus Distribution, follow the parking monitor's direction and park only in designated areas. You may also park in the free spaces in the streets adjacent to the property. If you are interested in seeing any of the items now available, come to our Recycling and Surplus Center at 175 North Harvard Street in Allston any Thursday except 6-7-07 from 11 to 2 PM. A street map showing our location is here. Everything is free, first-come, first-served and open to everyone.
A PARTIAL SAMPLING of the goods available as of 8-31-09:
“If it can’t be reduced, re-used, repaired, re-built, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, re-designed or removed from production.” Berkeley Ecology Center
Harvard Recycling supports this year’s Habitat for Humanity “Stuff Sale,” dropping off truckloads of last year’s Move-out furniture for sale to this year’s entering students. Photo by Rob Gogan
IT'S STILL STUFF SALE SEASON for Harvard Habitat for Humanity! That marvelous time of year when we sell a huge variety of top-quality used goods recovered from the Harvard Move-out has arrived! All those couches have been cleaned and enclosed in protective wrapping; the mini-fridges tested and scrubbed clean; the rugs vacuumed; the pens, pencils and clothes hangers bundled up in 10's; the tents rented, and the Science Center Lawn reserved. All we need is you! Coffee tables, dressers, futons, dishware, storage crates, ironing boards, mirrors, swivel chairs, school supplies, electronic goods, lamps, shoes, and thousands of other items will all be sold at bargain prices to raise money for HHH. See the website with photos from previous Stuff Sales here. You can also ask Habitat specific questions about the sale or goods desired by emailing Captain Lydia Karch at this address: HHHStuffSale at gmail dot com. We are very optimistic about this year as the quality is especially good. Back in June, the Summer School Stuff Sale raised $3,880 for Habitat, shattering the previous record of $1,200. Save money, raise funds for Habitat, and reduce your environmental impact by shopping at the Stuff Sales! Volunteers also needed on and just prior to all dates below. Please email us if interested. All sales occur on the SCIENCE CENTER LAWN at 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge from 9 AM to 5 PM on these dates:
Don't forget about Harvie's List Classifieds. Everything from Red Sox tickets to housing to "shabby/chic wicker table" furniture! Industrial supplies & equipment posted for sale and for free on MassMaterials Trader website. Check it out!
Harvard Yard installs NEW HARVARD YARD RECYCLING CONTAINERS and solar-powered trash compactors! Five new "Big Bellies" hold four times more litter than a non-compacting barrel. That means no unsightly, pest-friendly litter spilling out of the barrels. It also means that Harvard produces 1/4th the greenhouse gas from vehicle trips to service the barrels, less vehicle noise and air pollution, and fewer times that a truck has to disrupt pedestrian traffic. Collaboration among FMO Recycling & Waste Services and FMO Landscape Services enabled the purchase and installation of the bins. Thanks to Dara Olmsted for the photo!
Late, great contemporary of Henry David Thoreau topples into Sever Hall. Thanks to Maggie Stanley for photo.
For information concerning Recycling and Solid Waste Removal, contact Rob Gogan, Supervisor of Recycling and Solid Waste Removal at 617-495-3042, or email rob_gogan at harvard dot edu
