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Blue Man Group leaves its mark at Wellesley dump

Wellesley’s John Halamka (AKA, the world’s busiest man) blogs this week about a mystery solved at the Wellesley Recycling & Disposal Facility. (If you don’t know John, he is CIO for CareGroup Health System, a practicing emergency doctor, a frequent speaker at healthcare and IT industry events and even something of a geocaching expert).  He [...]

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The RDF goes Hollywood

Wellesley Department of Public Works interns Tobias Froehlich and Mike Stewart have cranked out a couple of videos to tell the story behind the story of the Recycling & Disposal Facility. We’ve mentioned one in the past on how your stuff gets baled after you drop it off at the RDF. Here’s a jazzy one, [...]

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Wellesley recycling: bulbs and movies

From the Wellesley Recycling and Disposal Facility: Fluorescent light bulbs are one of the more efficient types of bulbs available, but they also contain toxic chemicals such as mercury.   Mercury can cause a wide variety of health problems in humans ranging from hindered development to death.  Fluorescent bulbs are often long, skinny bulbs or tubes [...]

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