By SARAH LEBRUNGoffstown residents recently received a yellow hanger on their doors citing a policy change for recycling in town. Residents are no longer able to throw plastic grocery bags or plastic film of any kind into the blue recycling bins. This change comes in the wake of the town’s recycling contractor, Integrated Paper Recyclers, ...

Maple Avenue Elementary School in Goffstown, as part of the school’s commitment to Save Our Planet, has started collecting used cellular phones, ink jet cartridges, laptop/notebook computers, iPods, digital cameras and digital video cameras. The students and staff at the school are asking you to help protect the environment by donating your ...

BY STEPHEN BEALEThe town has found a way to make money off trash. After switching to a new contract at the start of the year with Integrated Paper Recyclers (IPR) of North Andover, Mass., the town says that it has turned an expenditure into revenue. The new contract, according to the town, eliminated a $95,000 annual cost. In the first quarter ...

BY MICHELLE KIM Goffstown’s trash may become its treasure after the Board of Selectmen accepted the Solid Waste Commission’s recommendation for a new recycling vendor, which could save the town more than $100,000 a year and even net a profit. Solid Waste Commission Chairman Fred Plett presented a summary of the five bids received by ...

BY DAVE CHOATE Cell phones are not usually the first item on a list of recyclables, but the Friends of the Library would like to change that. Tammy Gross, who heads  the recycling program for the Friends of the Library, said there is a collection box near the circulation desk for any make of cell phone. The money raised from the donations ...