Check out these sites and purchase a wide variety of Trash Wizard items. The reusable tote back is a great way to reduce waste and Go Green! All proceeds will be donated to charities in the Worcester, MA area. If you have a charity or organization in mind we’ll donate the profits from YOUR purchase directly to them!
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Save $$$ this Winter!!!
During the winter months it’s important to reduce your home’s overall heating costs and energy use. Here are a few tips that any homeowner can follow to ensure that their home will run at a lower cost during these cold New England months.
These are just a few helpful hints from Trash Wizard Junk Removal. This winter save a bundle by bundling up!
Fall is officially here! The trees are already turning and losing their leaves, the kids are back in school and the mornings are cold. Trash Wizard Junk Removal is reminding everyone that we also remove yard waste and debris this time of year to accommodate all of our customers.
Worcester currently offers a few drop off sites and their hours of operation are listed below. Visit www.ci.worcester.ma.us/ for more information.
The Worcester Public Works Department currently operates three yard waste drop-off sites for all Worcester residents. These sites are located at:
* Millbury Street (Next to the VFW Post)
* Chandler Street (Parking lot across from Foley Stadium)
* Clark Street (Near the East Mountain St. intersection)
Hours of Operation
Chandler Street and Clark Street Locations:
* Wednesdays 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM
* Saturdays 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Millbury Street Location:
* Wednesdays 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM
* Saturdays 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
* Sundays 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
These sites open again in December for several weeks to offer Christmas Tree Drop-Off.
“Yard Waste” is defined as leaves, grass clippings, garden materials, shrub/hedge trimmings, weeds, and brush one inch or less in diameter. The yard waste drop-off and composting program is the most cost-effective method to collect and dispose of yard waste and leaves. The Department of Public Works composts approximately 10,000 tons of leaf and yard waste every year. After the material is composted, it is used as a soil enrichment for City use, and is offered free to City residents.
NOTE: THE 1065 MILLBURY ST, FORMERLY CALLED 115 BALLARD ST, YARD IS THE ONLY SITE THAT ACCEPTS LARGE BRANCHES AND LOOSE BRUSH, AS FOLLOWS:
* The large branch and loose brush drop-off service is only available during regular drop-off days and times. (see above).
* Max size of limbs is eight (8) inches in diameter and eight (8) feet in length.
Loose (untied or un-baled) brush can be dropped off at this site; however, loads must be secured and/or covered while transporting loose materials to the drop-off site. NO tree stumps will be accepted.
As with each of our drop-off sites we remind residents of some important rules:
* All sites are for Worcester resident use only. I.D. is required to confirm City residency.
* No yard waste from commercial sources will be accepted.
* Dumping materials other than yard waste and/or on days when the sites are closed is strictly forbidden and is considered illegal dumping.
* Illegal dumping is subject to a minimum $200.00 fine. To report illegal dumping, call (508) 799-8547.
* Brush must be tied or bundled in lengths not exceeding three (3) feet, or taken to the Millbury Street Yard. (see above).
Residents may take yard waste to the drop-off site in bio-degradable paper bags, plastic bags or any other type of container. Only bio-degradable paper bags can be left at the drop-off site. All other containers will be given back to the resident.
The DPW Yard Waste and Leaf Program has eliminated a substantial amount of material from the solid waste stream, thereby reducing disposal costs as well as providing finished compost for residents and City use. The City offers residents an environmentally friendly solution to the growing demands associated with the disposal of yard waste and leaf products in an urban environment.
Any questions about this program or any solid waste issue,
please call the DPW Customer Service Center at (508) 929-1300.
For more information on Trash Wizard’s Fall and Winter services, please feel free to call 1-888-55WIZARD (94927) or Book Online at TrashWizard.com
Trash Wizard Junk Removal of Worcester understands that after summer vacations, and sending the kids back to school, money is tight. Unfortunately, junk and clutter continues to pile up regardless of what’s going on in our lives. That’s why Trash Wizard has dropped it’s price from $350 a load to $265 a load for the Fall months. We still take everything and anything that isn’t hazardous and we NEVER charge extra for t.v.’s, appliances, mattresses etc. If you want it gone we’ll take it! Trash Wizard Makes Your Junk Disappear!
For the residents of Westboro and Northboro we’re running an exclusive ad with WickedLocal.com that will be mailed out to 11,626 residents. This ad will give Westboro and Northboro residents $100 off a $350 load!
Trash Wizard has dumpster prices but without the labor. Let us do the work for you! ‘Fast, Friendly and Affordable’ – That’s our motto!
Here at Trash Wizard Junk Removal of Worcester, MA we’re continuing a previous article on proper mercury disposal. The original posting will explain the dangers of mercury and this up-to-date post will give a more in depth look at some common questions surrounding a common product containing mercury: Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs.
Compared to incandescent light bulbs, CFL bulbs are more energy efficient and cost effective. These CFL bulbs use 75% less electricity, while lasting nearly 10 times as long as regular incandescent bulbs.
If every home in America replaced just one incandescent bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified CFL, it would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes.
But even with the great benefits of these CFL bulbs, they should still be properly disposed of. According to Home Depot‘s website they offer nationwide drop boxes store wide. All you have to do is take your old, unbroken bulbs and wrap them in a plastic bag. Then go to your nearest Home Depot to deposit them in one of their in-store drop boxes. Home Depot will do the rest!
Most of you are probably reading this and wondering, “Why are they still using mercury in these new CFL bulbs if it’s dangerous?”. That’s a good question. But unfortunately, mercury is a necessary element in light bulbs because the mercury excites the phosphors in the bulb allowing a glow to manifest and thus produce ‘light’.
Newer CFL bulbs contain about 5 milligrams of mercury which is the equivalent of the tip on a ballpoint pen. In comparison, older house hold thermostats contain around 3,000 milligrams of mercury! If you converted that amount of mercury to reflect today’s CFL bulbs you could produce 600 bulbs that would in turn save each user $30 per light bulb in energy costs over the life span of the bulb! So do the math–by discontinuing the production of just ONE older, antiquated thermostat it would save around $18,000 in energy costs! That’s a pretty impressive feat.
Stay tuned to learn more about emerging trends in Recycling, Energy consumption and reducing our carbon footprint from Trash Wizard Junk Removal! Reduce, Reuse and Recycle!!!
Trash Wizard Junk Removal of Worcester, MA has provided the following information from Earth911.com
What Makes Things Hazardous?
Household Hazardous Waste is any product that is discarded from a home or a similar source that contains volatile chemicals that are:
Just a few examples of HHW are used motor oil, oil-based paint, auto batteries, gasoline and pesticides. The term HHW refers specifically to those products used in and around the common household, not used for any industrial purpose.
These products can be harmful to living things, the environment and to the people handing them if they are not disposed of properly. This means HHW should never be dumped on the ground, down the drain or thrown in the trash.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Americans generate 1.6 million tons of HHW per year. The average home alone at any one time can accumulate as much as 100 pounds of HHW in basements, garages, under the sink and in storage closets.
If you’re a Worcester resident looking to properly dispose of any items that may be hazardous, feel free to contact the Worcester Public Works & Parks department. They provide specific dates and times for drop-off and pick-up through out the year.
Help protect our Earth one city at a time! Reduce, Reuse and Recycle!!!
Here are some more facts from Recycling-Revolution.com. Trash Wizard Junk Removal of Worcester, MA continues to provide up-to-date environmental statistics and facts for our readers. Let’s become conscious to our environmental and recycling needs!
-To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
-Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
-If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
-If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
-If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you’d get about 700 of them. A supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket goes through 60,500,000 paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are in the U.S.!!!
-The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
-The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
-Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
-Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
-The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
-In 1993, U.S. paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
-Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
-The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
-The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.
Many supermarkets, corner stores and retail outlets offer reusable cloth bags to consumers. By using reusable bags we can reduce waste, save money and protect the environment.
Don’t like the drab bags offered by some stores? No problem! Visit BulletinBag.com
and customize your own bag! Who said recycling couldn’t be trendy?
Here are some more great recycling facts from Trash Wizard Junk Removal in Worcester, MA. The following information was taken from ‘Recycling-Revolution.com‘. Keep up to date with environmental issues by subscribing to Trash Wizard’s Blog.
Aluminum Recycling Facts!
-A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That’s closed loop recycling at its finest!
-Used aluminum beverage cans are the most recycled item in the U.S., but other types of aluminum, such as siding, gutters, car components, storm window frames, and lawn furniture can also be recycled.
-Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours — or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
-More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
-Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. waste stream, according to EPA estimates.
-An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
-There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled.
-We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.
-At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!
-A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over a day on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 pound of steel. In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000 homes!
The following facts are provided by Oberlin College in Ohio:
WATER
*Between 1950 and 2000, the U.S. population nearly doubled. However, in that same period, public demand for water more than tripled! Americans now use an average of 100 gallons of water each day — enough to fill 1,600 drinking glasses! (EPA, 2008)
*A recent government survey showed that at least 36 states are anticipating local, regional, or statewide water shortages by 2013. (EPA, 2008)
*Most people realize that hot water uses up energy, but supplying and treating cold water requires a significant amount of energy too. American public water supply and treatment facilities consume about 56 billion kilowatt-hours per year — enough electricity to power more than 5 million homes for an entire year. (EPA, 2008)
Appliances and Fixtures in General
*If all U.S. households installed water-efficient appliances, the country would save more than 3 trillion gallons of water and more than $18 billion dollars per year! (EPA, 2008)
*If one out of every 100 American homes was retrofitted with water-efficient fixtures, we could save about 100 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year — avoiding 80,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions. The greenhouse gas savings would be equivalent to removing nearly 15,000 automobiles from the road for one year! (EPA, 2008)
Bathroom: Sink, Toilet, Bath, Shower
*About 75 percent of the water we use in our homes is used in the bathroom. (California Energy Commission, 2006)
*If your toilet is from 1992 or earlier, you probably have an inefficient model that uses between 3.5 to 7 gallons per flush. Newer, high-efficiency toilets use less than 1.3 gallons per flush — that’s at least 60 percent less water per flush! (EPA, 2008)
*If just 1 percent of American homes replaced an older toilet with a new WaterSense labeled toilet, the country would save more than 38 million kilowatt-hours of electricity — enough electricity to supply more than 43,000 households for one month. (EPA, 2008)
*The average bathroom faucet flows at a rate of two gallons per minute. Turning off the tap while brushing your teeth in the morning and at bedtime can save up to 8 gallons of water per day, which equals 240 gallons a month. (EPA, 2008)
*Letting your faucet run for five minutes uses about as much energy as letting a 60-watt light bulb run for 14 hours. (EPA, 2008)
*Leaky faucets that drip at the rate of one drip per second can waste more than 3,000 gallons of water each year; A leaky toilet can waste about 200 gallons of water every day. If your fixtures have leaks, you should get them repaired! (EPA, 2008)
*A full bath tub requires about 70 gallons of water, while taking a five-minute shower uses only 10 to 25 gallons. (EPA, 2008)
Other Household Water Needs
*The average washing machine uses about 41 gallons of water per load, whereas newer, high-efficiency washing machine models use less than 28 gallons of water per load. (EPA, 2008)
*The typical single-family suburban household uses at least 30 percent of their water outdoors for irrigation. Some experts estimate that more than 50 percent of landscape water use goes to waste due to evaporation or runoff caused by overwatering!
Consider installing a drip irrigation system to water your lawn and garden. These systems use between 20 to 50 percent less water than conventional in-ground sprinkler systems. They are also much more efficient than conventional sprinklers because no water is lost to wind, runoff, and evaporation. (EPA, 2008)
Here at Trash Wizard Junk Removal in Worcester, MA we like to provide our readers with thought provoking facts that will raise awareness about the environment in general. Whether it’s reducing your carbon footprint, Going Green or simply being more frugal with our natural resources, Trash Wizard is happy to provide statistics, facts and alternative solutions for today’s many environmental issues.
Trash Wizard Junk Removal of Worcester, MA is always looking for ways to cut costs for it’s customers. Trash Wizard NEVER charges extra fees to haul away T.V.’s, monitors or anything else for that matter. Customers only pay by weight and accessibility. Now here comes the good part…
Best Buy offers a you an in store incentive for dropping of your old electronics. It’s all part of the Greener Together™ program.
Best Buy will take just about anything electronic, including TVs, DVD players, computer monitors, cell phones and more. You can bring in up to two items a day, per household, and most things are absolutely free. However, there is a $10 charge for TVs 32″ and under, CRTs, monitors and laptops — but they’ll give you a $10 Best Buy gift card to offset that cost. It’s just a little e-incarnation appreciation.
Don’t have the time or resources to bring your old t.v.’s and monitors to Best Buy? Trash Wizard will be more than happy to take one old t.v. or monitor per load to Best Buy and mail YOU the $10 gift card directly! Just another way Trash Wizard is willing to help our customers and save them money at the same time.*
So, before you pay another junk company $25-$35 to take away your old t.v. or monitor, simply call Trash Wizard to take it away for free. Think about the great incentive offered by Best Buy! Going ‘Green’ can also apply to your purse or wallet!
*(Due to item limits set forth by Best Buy, Trash Wizard will allow one (1) t.v or monitor per customer. Customers are on a first come, first serve basis so Book an Appointment now!)