A WORTHY PROJECT

At the 2010 Town Meeting the voters of Walpole approved the purchase of a heating unit for the town’s Recycling Center.  The enabling article was subject to one half the cost being raised privately by the town’s WRAP Committee.  The total cost is $7,000.00 making the amount to be raised by donation $3,500.00.

This is a long overdue action.  Since the Recycling Center came into being, the dedicated, full time staff and the volunteers have had to work in whatever the outside temperature was – no small feat during a New Hampshire winter!

Heating the Center’s work area will be a win-win situation for several reasons.

1.     It will make an already highly efficient town service even more effective.

2.       The volunteer pool is one of the reasons Walpole’s recycling effort has been able to keep costs down and, with heat, the number of volunteers of all ages will grow.

3.       The 250,000 BTU unit is designed to produce a work area temperature of 65-70 degrees and will do so by burning waste oil, both petroleum and vegetable.  That’s right, no fuel cost to operate and, in keeping with the center’s mission, a great way to recycle these waste oils.

The Committee is asking the Walpole community to support this very worthwhile project by sending a donation to:

Walpole Town Offices

P O Box 729

Walpole, NH 03608

Please make checks payable to Town of Walpole – Recycle Heat Project.