New England Grassroots Environment Fund

Group Resources

Recycling Green Gard (included in all resident’s quarterly tax bill)
Recycling Webpage
Home & House Resource Index

Group Details

The purpose of Sustainable Milton is to create a model sustainable community to help preserve the ecosystem as a whole. The group aims to raise awareness, educate and motivate the residents of Milton, MA to take action to reduce waste of all forms at home, at work and while traveling, and to inspire others to do the same.

The group’s successes so far include: launching a website with over 110 links; building a 100 lb. CO2 cube to raise awareness about global warming on Earth Day; screening Inconvenient Truth for 7 groups in town; beginning Can & Bottle Recycling in the Milton Public Schools to recycle 25% of schools’ total trash; partnering with the Milton Bike Advisory Committee to procure 22 state-funded bike racks; attaining chapter status with parent organization (Massachusetts Climate Action Network); forming a Low Carbon Diet team to reduce household energy use; having three members working with Selectmen on the Wind Energy Advisory Committee; and planning monthly events and movie series.

The group, located in Milton (MA), received its latest NEGEF grant in November 2007 to launch a program “Recycle Up” to increase paper and cardboard recycling in residential, town and school buildings by 10%. Milton’s total FY06 paper/cardboard recycling was 2,797 tons, so this program would eliminate a minimum of 280 tons of paper and cardboard from the waste stream.