January 17, 2020
Hingham Resident Griffin Brown completed his Eagle Scout Project by constructing all new heavy duty display boxes to showcase the types of materials you can recycle at the Hingham Transfer Station.
The boxes are constructed of heavy-duty UV-resistant material and are designed to last. Griffin updated the acceptable recycling examples and brought the project into the digital age with new QR codes on the side and top of the box.
If you are questioning whether you can recycle a certain material, you can use a QR reader app on your smartphone to scan it, which will direct you to a page that has a list of all acceptable materials for that recycling station.
This is helpful because the biggest problem with the recycling program is contamination. If incorrect materials get thrown into the wrong recycling station, it can contaminate a whole load. If a load is contaminated, it is thrown into the garbage and trucked to a landfill or incinerator and will never be recycled. Clean recycling costs less than trash to dispose of and saves Hingham money.
Griffin worked with Randy Sylvester and Steve Messenger of the DPW and Andy Ayer of the Cleaner Greener Hingham Committee to make sure he got the project right. He organized scouts and volunteers to assist him over multiple weekends with the construction and Installation of the boxes.
Griffin did all the computer work to produce the graphics, codes, and labels for the project. His efforts have provided Hingham with a useful project that will be of benefit for years to come.