WRENTHAM'S FIRST RE-CYCLING COMMITTEE

In the nineteen-seventies, Holly Cafferky went into the town hall to get a dog license and Sumner Perry, the town clerk said, ”Raise your right hand.” It turned out one had to be sworn into office for the re-cycling committee and she thought it was for a dog license.  Many years later Holly saw in the paper, she was on the newly formed committee. At that time there was a dump on Madison Street, a busy place on Saturdays.  The men would go to the dump and came home with more than they brought. Few will remember we had containers there for aluminum, the different colored glass, tin or plastic. Holly and the other committee members, Jackie Farrar and John Blinkiron, tried to get the town interested in re-cycling, but the town wasn’t ready.  At that time Holly was president of the girl scouts and gave suggestions on how to save energy, water, money, but people really didn’t care. Flea markets were becoming the place to be on weekends and they were the biggest re-cyclists, then came yard sales. The town dump closed fifteen years later and the town thought they were doing something new, but it wasn’t, just updated, or changed a little. Contributed by Holly Cafferky. JJM