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Micro Swap of Small Garden Tools & TerraCycle Collection | Farmers’ Market Sustainability Day | Aug 7 | Bowden Park, 1pm – 6pm

Micro Swap of Small Garden Tools & TerraCycle Collection | Farmers’ Market Sustainability Day

Thursday, August 7, 2025

1:00PM – 6:00PM

Melrose Farmers’ Market, Bowden Park (junction of West Emerson and Vinton Streets)

Come to ZWM’s pop-up micro swap for small garden tools at the Farmers’ Market Sustainability Day!

Accepted items:

  • Garden gloves

  • Watering cans

  • Weed cloth

  • Handheld gardening tools only (clippers, pruning shears, tillers, trowels, scoops, transplanters, cultivators, had seeders, etc.) No full-size tools.

Please limit “gives” to clean items in good condition and minimal rust that fit in one shopping bag. Drop-off ends at 5:00 p.m. There’s no need to donate to pick something up!

ZWM will also collect hard-to-recycle items to send to TerraCycle through the company’s free recycling programs. We can accept all brands of blades and razors, oral care packaging, and contact lens blister packs and storage cases, plus a variety of brand-specific items. Find the current TerraCycle collection list here.

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