Four Massachusetts cities are partnering with the Chelsea Center for Recycling and Economic Development, Chelsea, Mass., in economic development through recycling strategies. Funds come from the Clean Environment Fund, comprised of unredeemed bottle deposits.
Springfield,
Mass., will use funds from the center to develop a baseline study for the
development of a recycling-based eco-industrial park. The project will identify
material flows and sector information to be used for recycling-based business
retention and attraction and establishing business to business materials
networks. The plan will help reinvigorate vacant industrial lots around the
city.
The City of Lowell and the University of
Massachusetts at Lowell are partnering to explore urban food waste composting
to alleviate restaurant waste disposal costs.
The Miles River Community Development Corp., with
assistance from the Mass Natural Resource Corp. and the Forest and Wood
Products Institute at Mt. Wachusett Community College, will develop business
plans for a forest product wood recycling center in the North Quabbin area. The
facility would be a centralized processing and manufacturing facility.
The Center for Ecological Technology, Northern
Berkshire, will work with community partners to develop a financial feasibility
and operating plan for a business that uses post-consumer pallets as feedstock.
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