Best of the west: How the suburbs rank

Sustainability Not to be outdone, Needham boasts the area’s highest recycling and composting rate at over 50 percent. Wellesley, too, was named the state’s first Green Power Community this year. Rachel McMorrow loads newspapers into the newspaper recycling bins in Needham’s Central Ave. trash collection point.
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Best of the west: How the suburbs rank

Sustainability

Not to be outdone, Needham boasts the area’s highest recycling and composting rate at over 50 percent. Wellesley, too, was named the state’s first Green Power Community this year.

Rachel McMorrow loads newspapers into the newspaper recycling bins in Needham’s Central Ave. trash collection point.