Go Green
The Go Green Committee is focused on working to protect the watershed and to educate our members and the public on water and land conservation, erosion control, hazardous waste, recycling, and other environmental issues.
Contact co-chairs: Jenee Melgoza or Christine Andrews for more information!
Contact co-chairs: Jenee Melgoza or Christine Andrews for more information!
Upcoming Events!
On November 30, 2022 MassDOT installed two Adopt-A-Highway signs recognizing Hingham Women's Club volunteering efforts to assit in the cleanup and beautification of the Rte. 3A @ Otis St through 28 George Washington Blvd.
HWC Adopt-A-Highway Agreement 2022 
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On November 6, 2022 our group joined the Cleaner Greener Hingham Fall town clean up day and cleaned up Whitney Wharf Park. We collected two large construction bags of trash, one bag of recyclables, a boat seat, and plexiglass!
Join us in the spring for the next Cleaner Greener Hingham town clean up! 
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Community Initiatives & Resources
Cleaner Greener Hingham - Taking Action on Single-Use Plastics in Our Community
Hingham's decision at Town Meeting 2019 to ban single-use plastic bags was a huge step forward in terms of reducing plastic waste in our community. Cleaner Greener Hingham is now taking on plastic water bottles with a proposed bylaw banning the sale of non-flavored, uncarbonated water in single-use plastic bottles under one gallon.
24 communities have banned the sale of single serve plastic water bottles:
Aquinnah, Arlington, Bourne, Brewster, Brookline, Chatham, Chilmark, Concord, Eastham,
Falmouth, Great Barrington, Harwich, Lincoln, Nantucket, Oak Bluffs, Orleans, Provincetown,
Rockport, Sudbury, Tisbury, Truro, Wellfleet, West Tisbury, and Yarmouth.
Interested in learning more about plastic recycling and the impact of single use plastic water bottles? Check out Cleaner Greener Hingham's recent articles in the Hingham Anchor: We've "Bin" Recycling - September 26, 2022 and Why are Plastic Bottles (and Bottled Water) Bad for the Environment? - November 21, 2022. Also watch the October 6, 2022 Public Meeting with guest speaker Dr. Bryan James.
In October 2022, the Go Green committee hosted guest speaker, Janice Phillips, to learn more about the single-use plastics initiative.
February 2023 UPDATE
Cleaner Greener Hingham has spent much of the last year researching and writing a pair of bylaws that would limit the sale of plain water in single use plastic containers less than one gallon in size. Under these bylaws, businesses in Hingham could not sell this product and the Town could not buy and distribute it.
The full text of the proposed bylaws is available here: https://www.hingham-ma.gov/documentcenter/view/17493
Hingham's decision at Town Meeting 2019 to ban single-use plastic bags was a huge step forward in terms of reducing plastic waste in our community. Cleaner Greener Hingham is now taking on plastic water bottles with a proposed bylaw banning the sale of non-flavored, uncarbonated water in single-use plastic bottles under one gallon.
24 communities have banned the sale of single serve plastic water bottles:
Aquinnah, Arlington, Bourne, Brewster, Brookline, Chatham, Chilmark, Concord, Eastham,
Falmouth, Great Barrington, Harwich, Lincoln, Nantucket, Oak Bluffs, Orleans, Provincetown,
Rockport, Sudbury, Tisbury, Truro, Wellfleet, West Tisbury, and Yarmouth.
Interested in learning more about plastic recycling and the impact of single use plastic water bottles? Check out Cleaner Greener Hingham's recent articles in the Hingham Anchor: We've "Bin" Recycling - September 26, 2022 and Why are Plastic Bottles (and Bottled Water) Bad for the Environment? - November 21, 2022. Also watch the October 6, 2022 Public Meeting with guest speaker Dr. Bryan James.
In October 2022, the Go Green committee hosted guest speaker, Janice Phillips, to learn more about the single-use plastics initiative.
February 2023 UPDATE
Cleaner Greener Hingham has spent much of the last year researching and writing a pair of bylaws that would limit the sale of plain water in single use plastic containers less than one gallon in size. Under these bylaws, businesses in Hingham could not sell this product and the Town could not buy and distribute it.
The full text of the proposed bylaws is available here: https://www.hingham-ma.gov/documentcenter/view/17493
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April 2021 Co-President Nikki Nihan participated in Cleaner Greener Hingham clean up day!
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