💡For each year, you need four pieces of information for the table in your journal:

1. How much is recycled in weight? This can be found in the City's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports below.
2. What is the cost in dollars? This can be found in the Solid Waste Department's Detail Expenditures Reports below.
3. What is recycled? This can be found in the City's Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports below.
4. Where does it go? This changed over time, and was not reported formally. The companies Nashua currently works with are listed below.

• Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports - A yearly report on the City of Nashua's government finances and activities.
  💡 1. Search the City website for "city financial reports" and find the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for each fiscal year.
        2. In the table of contents, find the section on Operating Information and go to the page for "Operating Indicators by Function."
        3. In the data table, find the line for "Recycling (tons)" and the amount for the appropriate year. This is the data for column 1 of your journal.
        4. Follow the footnote to the bottom of the page to find what was recycled. This is the data for column 3 of your journal.
  
  📝 Copy this citation into your bibliography, but for each individual report change the year in both places, the URL, and the date you accessed it. The link starts with "https://" and ends with "-PDF" so you should remove anything before or after that.

City of Nashua, New Hampshire. Comprehensive Annual Financial Report: For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2014. City of Nashua, New Hampshire, 2014, https://www.nashuanh.gov/DocumentCenter/View/5351/FY2014-ACFR-PDF. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.

• Detail Expenditures Reports - Annual reports of the City of Nashua's Solid Waste Department expenses related to recycling, broken down by category.
  💡 1. Go to this folder and find the Recycling Expenses report for each year.
        2. Look for the TOTAL line at the bottom of the second page.
        3. Find the amount in the column called YTD EXPENDED (year-to-date). This is the data for column 2 of your journal.
  
  📝 Copy this citation into your bibliography, but for each individual report change the year, the URL, and the date you accessed it. The link starts with "https://" and ends with "-PDF" so you should remove anything before or after that.

City of Nashua, New Hampshire. "Detail Expenditures Report by Fund, Department & Accounting Unit: Fiscal Year 2014, Solid Waste Fund - Recycling." City of Nashua, New Hampshire. Data generated from internal database system on 7 Jan. 2026.

• Examples of Recycling Companies - Some examples of companies Nashua has used for recycling various materials.

  • Casella Waste Systems: For curbside pickup of single-stream recycling

  • Windfield Recycling: For heavy scrap metal recycling

  • Northeast Electronics & Recycling: For lightbulbs, batteries, and electronics

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