Trex Recycling Challenge

Important Update, 12/31/25

Thanks to our amazing community, the TREX® Recycling Challenge collection has been an incredible success! Together, community members have helped the library collect over 10,000 pounds of plastic, earning 11 TREX® benches that have been donated to community organizations throughout Saco. We are thrilled by your enthusiasm and commitment to keeping plastic out of landfills!

And now, an important update: With updates to the TREX® Recycling Challenge program, the library will no longer collect plastic on-site starting in January. But don’t worry—you can still recycle your plastic film and bags by dropping them off directly at participating locations, listed here!

• Hannaford, 532 Main St, Saco
• Shaw’s, 4 Scammon St, Saco
• Market Basket, 220 Mariner Way, Biddeford
• Kohl’s, 75 Biddeford Gateway Ctr, Biddeford
• Ocean State Job Lot, 510 Alfred St, Biddeford

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We need your help! The Dyer Library/Saco Museum has launched the Trex Challenge, an effort to collect thousands of plastic bags that would otherwise go into landfills and waterways to be turned into sustainable outdoor materials. If we collect 1,000 pounds of plastic bags and plastic film in a one-year span, Trex will donate a high-performance composite bench to our organization. It’s a win for us, our environment and for Trex!

Here’s what Trex will accept: produce bags, bread bags, case overwrap (think toilet paper and paper towel rolls), dry cleaning bags, newspaper sleeves, ice bags, wood pellet bags, Ziplock & other resealable bags, bubble wrap, salt bags and cereal bags. All materials must be clean, dry and free of food residue.

Here’s how it works: Start collecting plastic right now and store them at home. (But reuse them if you can.) Once you have collected a few trash bags-worth, drop them off at the Library or Museum during regular business hours. 1,000 pounds is a LOT of plastic, so we encourage everyone to participate. Dyer Library staff will weigh and report the collected materials every month before delivering them to one of the participating drop-off retailer locations. Together we can do it!