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Services and Transportation
SERVICES &
TRANSPORTATION

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antucket teems with a diversity
of businesses – from Accountants to
Web Design and everything in between,
all combining to drive the “engine” of
island commerce. In terms of “sustainability”, let’s highlight a few which may not
receive the recognition they deserve.
The Nantucket
Food Pantry partners with Sustainable Nantucket
(and other local
farms) to increase
its access to fresh
produce, and has
created a “Share
Your Harvest”
program involving
individual, family
and group gardeners as suppliers of
fresh produce; in
addition, a vacation rental Food
Rescue program
collects unused
food from rental
properties in July and August. In June of
2015 alone, they distributed over 1,560
bags of groceries to the disadvantaged.

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Every Saturday, from mid-April until the
first week of December, the Nantucket
Clean Team meets for one hour at designated locations around the island to
retrieve litter from our beaches, roads,
conservation lands and neighborhoods.
On most Saturdays, 20-30 volunteers of
all ages report for
duty, picking up
approximately a
half ton of trash.

On the transportation front, two
hybrid buses with
engines reducing
carbon and CO2
emissions – as
well as utilizing
less fuel – were
added to the
Nantucket Regional Transit Authority WAVE shuttle
bus fleet in 2011.
Other buses in the
fleet are environmentally-friendly
low Sulphur diesel vehicles.

Inset photo ©Michael Galvin