GRAB Initiatives have included:

• Creating educational materials such as the recycling guide, the leaflet on services at Holly Hill and flyers on single stream recycling.

• Organizing presentations throughout Town to promote and support the change from blue bin to single stream recycling.

• Supporting the food scrap recycling program being developed by Waste Free Greenwich as a pilot program.
  Organizing one-day Paper Shredding events each spring for residents. Shredding provides a safe method for disposal of sensitive, personal documents.

• Advocating for reusable wares in public school cafeterias. Assisting the implementation of recycling programs in larger institutions, most recently at the Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich

• Implementing single stream recycling in public schools, including cafeteria recycling and composting in conjunction with PTAC Green Schools and Conservation Commission.

• Developing recycling education programs and arranging ‘Garbage Tours’ for public and private elementary schools.

• Supporting the installation of the side-by-side trash/recycling bins in public spaces.

• Initiating a cell phone recycling program intended to keep toxic metals out of the trash and ground water. This program was a predecessor to the Town’s permanent E-waste collection at Holly Hill.

• Creating a series of public service newspaper ads to explain aspects of the recycling programs in Greenwich.

• Organizing annual sneaker recycling program. The program ran for seven years each spring collecting sneakers which were recycled through the Nike Reuse-a-Shoe Program.