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As one of our cooperative purchasing programs, NRRA is seeking orders for black plastic gaylords. Our members use these lightweight and durable gaylords for storage of aluminum cans and plastics prior to baling. We need to order a minimum of 40 gaylords, as these are custom-made by NRRA’s vendor in Laconia, NH. Members can order any number of gaylords, with or without lids. Once made, these gaylords need to be picked up by the member at NRRA’s vendor in Laconia, NH. NH the Beautiful offers grants for NH Members for up to 20% of the purchase price. Please contact NRRA Member Services at 603-736-4401 for more details and pricing.

The New Hampshire Legislature has begun its 2022 session, and NRRA has prepared a list of numerous bills related to solid waste and recycling. NRRA will periodically provide updates regarding these bills and encourages members to testify on bills relevant to their work. NRRA may testify regarding some bills to educate lawmakers, but NRRA does not take a position on proposed legislation. This article was last updated Feb. 9, 2022. Need a refresher about how the legislative process works in New Hampshire? Here's an overview of how a bill becomes a law. In addition, the NH Department of Environmental Services prepares a bill tracking...

EPSOM, NH (January 24, 2022) - The Northeast Resource Recovery Association (NRRA), a recycling nonprofit that enables communities to manage their own recycling programs, has begun its Recycling with Results grant-funded project. Outreach has begun in preparation for the upcoming Recycle Right social media campaign and Solid Waste Advisory Team (SWAT) Program. In August 2021, NRRA was awarded a grant by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Utilities Service to launch a Recycling with Results project. This grant is aimed at helping small, rural communities in New Hampshire recycle more and recycle better in order...

NRRA started out this year with a special speaker from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Grant Area Director, Jon-Michael Muise, to talk about funding for recycling facilities at our virtual MOM meeting. The Community Facility Loan and Grant Program provides loan and grant opportunities for municipal equipment, containers or building funds in NH and VT. The federal agency provides funding to rural communities with under 20,000 residents who meet a certain median household income for each state. For more information and eligibility for this great opportunity to improve your recycling program, please see NRRA's Resource page for...

Residents in the town of Lee, NH should be proud. In the month of November 2021, their small, individual acts of recycling for the past several months led to nearly $39,000 in revenue for their town. This is a great example of a town Recycling with Results! But how did they make it happen? First, individual community members rinsed out, collected, and then separated their plastic bottles and jugs, aluminum cans, scrap metal, cardboard, and paper at the transfer station. By making sure they were only recycling items that could be processed, they helped make sure their recyclables remained clean and uncontaminated. This means that...

Over the past year, NRRA members and communities have reported that residents continue to hear that recycling is dead, recycling isn't working anymore, and that communities are stopping recycling. In reality, recycling has been doing very well. So much so that this past summer, NRRA Executive Director Reagan Bissonnette penned an op-ed, " Recycling is Thriving, In Part Due to the Pandemic" which was featured locally in the Concord Monitor and NH Bulletin. Recently, however, Reagan was able to talk with New Hampshire Public Radio reporter, Mara Hoplamazian, to share the real story on how times have changed - for the better - when it...

Did you know that the Northeast Resource Recovery Association (NRRA) partners with the Town of Dennis, MA to help Cape Cod communities recycle their glass locally? Six Cape Cod communities participate in NRRA's processed glass aggregate program, where glass bottles and jars get crushed into an aggregate to be used locally in infrastructure projects. NRRA's vendor recently completed a crush of glass in Dennis, MA, and the crushed glass will be used in local projects. Established in the summer o f 2019, NRRA's processed glass aggregate host site in Dennis, MA now serves the towns of Barnstable, Brewster, Wellfleet, Mashpee, and...

Your donation helps strengthen recycling programs throughout New England. Your fully tax deductible contribution to the Northeast Resource Recovery Association helps communities recycle, sustains a unique recycling model, and protects the environment. We've been supporting communities like yours for the past forty years. GIVE TODAY NRRA is one of only a handful of nonprofits in the country that offers a cooperative marketing model for recycling. This means that we connect our member municipalities with recyclables to sell to the companies that wish to acquire those recyclable materials and turn them into new products and packaging...

At the Northeast Resource Recovery Association's 40th Annual Meeting held earlier this month, the recycling nonprofit elected three new members to the Board of Trustees: Ken Filpula, Transfer Station Supervisor, Town of Moultonborough, NH; Benjamin Hoy, Recycling Manager, Town of Walpole, NH; and Joshua Whipple, Solid Waste Manager, Town of Swanzey, NH. "Each new board member is an experienced transfer station manager whose community is an active member of NRRA," said Reagan Bissonnette, NRRA Executive Director. "Their individual and combined expertise in recycling and waste reduction will benefit NRRA and our mission to partner...

NRRA is sharing recycling tips, surprising recycling facts, and a host of recycling wins all week long in a National Recycling Week social media campaign on Facebook and Instagram. We are asking our members to follow, share, and interact with our posts to encourage your residents to recycle right every day. We understand that education is an important component of running a successful recycling program, but it can be time consuming to research and create posts, so we have designed this campaign to be widely applicable. With tangible economic and environmental impacts, there is something for everyone in this campaign. You can share...