This time of year, each household typically uses 4 rolls of gift wrapping paper. Did you know wrapping paper is usually made of a mix of different paper types, shiny glitter (a microplastic) or foil, and bright dyes? This means wrapping paper can’t be recycled and in n the U.S., about 2.3 million pounds of …
Posted: November 28, 2025 by Janet Kern
Alternative Wrapping this Holiday Season
“According to the National Environmental Education Fund, we toss 25 percent more waste—an extra one million tons of trash per week—between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. And it’s not just fruitcakes and other food waste. Wrapping paper is a massive problem.”1 This holiday season consider using an alternative to single-use gift wrapping. Gifts haven’t always …
Posted: September 22, 2025 by Janet Kern
Beijing Chinese Dining Joins ZeroToGo
Starting October 1, LexZeroWaste is pleased to announce that Beijing Chinese Dining at 1709 Mass. Ave in Lexington Center will launch its participation in the ZeroToGo program! ZeroToGo began in the spring of 2023 with one Lexington restaurant, Royal India Bistro. Then Revival Café joined the program in February. LexZeroWaste partners with Arlington-based Recirclable LLC …
Posted: August 15, 2025 by Tina McBride
Bags at the Farmer’s Market
LexZeroWaste is all about reducing waste in our lives. And Plastics in particular. Shopping at the Farmer’s Market is not just a great way to support local producers, but it is also a good way to shop for products with less packaging. The first week of August we handed out cotton mesh, reusable produce bags …
Posted: July 31, 2025 by Janet Kern
New Textiles Working Group
New Working Group starts mending sessions to encourage re-use and repair in the face of our problem with textile waste.
Posted: April 29, 2025 by Janet Kern
“Plastic People” Film Screening
Join us for a screening of the “Plastic People: The Hidden Crisis of Microplastics”. Tues., April 297:00 – 9:00 pm Lexington Venue1794 Mass. Ave Plastic People is an award-winning feature documentary that chronicles humanity’s fraught relationship with plastic and one woman’s mission to expose shocking new revelations about the impact of microplastics on human health. Winner …
Posted: January 29, 2025 by Janet Kern
Revival Café Joins ZeroToGo
LexZeroWaste would like to thank Royal India Bistro and all the participating diners and LexZeroWaste members who helped launch our reusable takeout pilot program ZeroToGo in 2023, and who have successfully diverted over 2500 containers from incineration and landfill so far! Along with Royal India Bistro continuing its participation in ZeroToGo this year, we are …
Posted: April 17, 2024 by Janet Kern
Are you Wish-cycling?
Wish-cycling is the practice of placing items into recycling bins that cannot be recycled. It stems from the best intentions. You wish or hope that something you’ve bought or use regularly can be recycled. We all like to feel good about our recycling efforts, so much so that perhaps we feel good when our recycling …
Posted: February 29, 2024 by Janet Kern
Zero Waste Actions you can take now…
Thanks to LexCAN and Cary Library for hosting the film “Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet” and follow-up discussion last night. We were happy to participate and have the opportunity to put together a one-pager that lists actions each of us can take NOW related to Zero Waste and a Circular Economy. For those …
Posted: February 28, 2024 by Janet Kern
Reduce Waste at Events
LexZeroWaste is starting a campaign to eliminate the practice of providing single use water bottles at events in Lexington. Instead, we are asking organizations to promote using reusable options at all events. Are you a member or leader of a group that hosts events for the public or your members? Please see this flier we …
Posted: December 8, 2023 by Janet Kern
Waste Free Holiday Wrapping!
This time of year, each household typically uses 4 rolls of gift wrapping paper. Did you know wrapping paper is usually made of a mix of different paper types, shiny glitter (a microplastic) or foil, and bright dyes? This means wrapping paper can’t be recycled and in n the U.S., about 2.3 million pounds of …