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Job: Check
I'll be working at Recycline (www.recycline.com - yes, I know the website isn't stellar) as a Product Development Associate. We make environmentally friendly oral care, kitchenware, and tableware, mostly from recycled plastics (polypropylene). It's actually very cool because there aren't that many products out there that use recycled PP (it's the stuff in your yogurt cups) and not all towns recycle it because it's not profitable to. We don't use very much post-consumer waste right now because we don't have a good source for it, but I definitely think that is on our horizon (as are biodegradable plastics - we also recently made kitchen cutting boards from post-consumer recycled paper).
We're only 14 people (including me and a new marketing associate), but growing quickly. As of last year, we are in select Target stores and all Walmart stores, and we released an exclusive kitchen product line to Whole Foods. In the future are new product lines and old product makeovers.
What will I be doing? Something of everything...conducting LCAs on our products, pursuing certification for them, sourcing new materials, testing new materials, packaging design, product design and idea generation, communicating with the manufacturers and product design firm we use, keeping track of stock, purchase orders...etc.
Apartment: Check
After a weekend of calling seemingly everyone in Massachusetts and setting up appointments to visit apartments (we visited 8 in total in both Porter Square and Walltham) - I've got an apartment. It's a small (cozy?) apartment in Waltham right off Moody St., a convenient 5 block walk from work and the commuter rail. Come visit me sometime..but only a couple at a time, please, unless you want to experience life as a sardine :p The worst thing about this place is there's no laundry in the building. Oh yeah, and it's obnoxiously pink (not pretty pink, but IN YOUR FACE pink). But it's affordable...and tenancy at will, so I can find a new place whenever I want. This way, I can get out of Waltham and move to Cambridge if it doesn't suit me...plus there's a TKD place like three blocks from my place.
So what's left in Operation Next Phase of Life? Furniture. Moving (Feb 4). Actually cooking for myself. Getting internet. Yay become an adult!
(There, Mel. I keep my promises! ;)
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