Recycling Workshop With DEEP

Please join the Meriden Department of Public Works and DEEP (CT Department of Energy & Environmental Protection) to find out which items should be placed into your recycling bin (What’s IN) and which items belong elsewhere (What’s OUT)! The event will highlight the City of Meriden's Co-Collection project to encourage recycling as well as food scrap separation. Guest speakers Sherill Baldwin and Emma MacDonald from DEEP will provide an overview of acceptable materials in CT’s mixed recycling program. They will answer all of our important questions about recycling and trash; questions like, “What goes in the bin?”, “What stays out?”, “Should I still recycle?”, “What is the impact of external factors on CT’s recycling programs?”, and much more will all be answered!  

Emma MacDonald is a recent hire to the Sustainable Materials Management office at DEEP. She started in June of 2022 after graduating from UConn in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Sustainable Forest Resources. During her time at UConn, Emma was an intern at the university's Office of Sustainability and President of EcoHusky, UConn's largest environmentally-focused undergraduate student organization. She was also selected as an ambassador for UConn's College of Agriculture, Health, and Natural Resources and as an Undergraduate UConn@COP fellow, which gave her the opportunity to represent UConn at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain in 2019. At DEEP, Emma has begun work on interactive mapping projects intended to make sustainable practices more accessible, as well as outreach and engagement projects. 

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