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TimestampTown nameHow is trash collection funded – through tax revenues, pay-as-you throw program (except for recyclables), or a combination program? Please explain.How long has the program been in place? What is its evolution?Does the town have a recycling program in place for condos, apartment buildings, businesses, schools, and churches? If yes, what works? If not, why not?What recycling rate (percentage of residences) does the community report to the MassDEP? If it has been trending up, to what is that attributed?If this community has a pay-as-you-throw program, what was the recycling participation rate before the pay-as-you-throw program was in place?What annual recycling income does the community recognize? What is the financial model?What was the cost to implement the expanded or enhanced recycling program?What programs are in place to market and encourage recycling and broadened involvement?Has the community secured any grants support? If yes, what were the sources?Are any sample marketing materials, press clippings, reports, or financial models available for us to see?Is there a local law or ordinance in place to help prevent the curbside theft of recyclables? If yes, how is it enforced? 8/11/2008This is a growing problem in New York and California. Is a “before” and “after” recycling history available?How are the recycling revenues dispersed? Are they linked as a tangible benefit for a specific set of programs to help encourage participation?What are the barriers to participation? Are there any fines for non-participation? How is involvement encouraged for participation by all generations? And maintained over time to assure optimal institutionalization? Any other comments

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8/25/2008 14:37:21NeedhamPay-As-You Throw program. Residents must purchase special trash bags and bring them to transfer station themselves. Recycling & Transfer station is set up as its own enterprise fund with revenues coming from user fees and recyclables and materials sales and equipment rentals.1998. Came about with the closing of the Needham Sanitary Landfill.Yes about 75% of residents directly utilize facility, remaining 25% through subscription hauler services.100% of all residents utilize recycling services either directly or through subscription service.Prior to pay as you throw, the diversion rate was 20% not including yard waste.Varies for year to year pending on market conditions.$300,000 included design and construction in year 2000. Recycling area improvements.Annual recycling contracts and compliance with MA DEP waste bans.Yes - MA DEPhttp://www.needhamma.govN/APrior to pay as you throw the recycling rate averaged 20%, without yard waste. After pay as you throw the recycling rate averaged 40-42% without yard waste.Part of the enterprise fund.The barriers to not participate are cost. "The more you recycle, the more you save". No.Presently starting an ALL school recyclingn program which will be run and managed by the Town.No

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9/5/2008 16:35:42ReadingTax RevenuesOur program has been place about 20 years. In recent years, we have added plastics 3-7, cardboard and paperboard.The town has recycling programs in place for Condos and schools.60% participation and 37% recycling rateN/ANoneN/AEducation and awarenessDEP grants for equipment and education.Most of our information is on our webpageNoNoN/AWe do not have fines for non-participationThere have been recycling information programs in the schools, Library and at Town fairs and eventsno

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9/8/2008 18:07:32TopsfieldVia taxes and pay as you throw revenues.Both the recycling and pay as you throw programs have been in place for 10 years. There have been no major changes to these programs over time.This program is only for residential units. Commercial establishments need to fund their own trash and recycling pick up.The town does not report any recycling rate to the DEP. However, anecotally, the town thinks participation is relatively good and has not changed dramatically over time.As these programs started at the same time, there is no pre/post comparison.The town made $53,650 in 2007 from stickers from the pay as you throw program. The only recycling income is from the sale of additional bins, which doesn't amount to much revenue.The program was never expanded or enhanced.There is very little in place. Local newspapers, a website and postcard mailings once a year advertise the program. There is a recycling committee that also does some publicity.Yes, there is a state grant.An annual report may be available.There is no law. Once the recyclables and trash is on the curb, it becomes the propoerty of the trash removal company who likely would not prosecute individuals who take it.No.They are used to purchase more stickers and bins for new participants.No barriers could be identified. There aren't any fines for non-participation - just limits on trash and additional costs for additional bins or bags of trash.Involvement has been maintained via consistency in the pay as you throw program.My contact was Donna Rich at 978-887-1500.

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9/11/2008 14:39:34StonehamAll curbside trash and recycling is picked up by Hiltz Disposal for a set fee paid by tax revenues.not sure - current contract ends in 2010.No. I didn't get an answer to this.n/an/a The contracting company owns whatever it picks up and gains any revenue as well as is responsible for any costs.n/aThere used to be a recycling manager position, but that position was removed. noSee:
http://www.ci.stoneham.ma.us/Pages/StonehamMA_RSWP/index		nonot sureHiltz gets paid a set fee to pick up all curbide trash and recycling. Hiltz then owns the materials and keeps any profit.n/an/aI spoke with Robert Grover, the DPW Director. He had looked over the questions and didn't feel that they were applicable to their program so the questions were not answered specifically.

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9/26/2008 11:45:25WakefieldTrash collection is funded by tax revenue. 4-5 years ago, there was no interest in pay as you go. Background – there was an override in the early 1990s specifically to pay for trash pickup. Thus, “pay as you go” would be a “double tax” on top of that.Wakefield was one of the first communities in the area to move to a contracted trash pickup system, with it beginning in the early 1970s. Recycling started in the mid 1980s with a voluntary paper drop-off system that paid for itself for a while. Wakefield picks up trash and recycling for private residence with up to four units. There are a number of reasons for this limit. There would not be room for curbside pickup for larger buildings and there is a liability issue of the town-contracted vehicles going onto private property to pick up barrels or empty dumpsters. These cost and liability issues apply to businesses, as well. Another issue is the number of vehicles picking up trash and recycling would have to be increased, thus increasing taxpayer cost.

Curbside pickup for recycling IS available to the schools. However, they have so far chosen to take care of their own recycling. Note: I believe that they would have to pay whatever incremental cost to the town and apparently they can contract their own recycling less expensively.

As to schools and trash pickup – the Town can exceed our incinerator limit by a certain percent but it will entail added costs that the school would have to pick up. Again, they choose to handle their own trash for, I am assuming, budget reasons.
Our recycling rate is 39%. In general, communities with “pay as your throw” have a higher rate than those that don’t; however, Wakefield’s rate is pretty competitive even though our pickup is totally tax funded. FYI – yard waste also gets report to MassDEP. N/AAnnual income varies from year to year based on the market. No cost.Monthly ads and press releases for the curbside recycling in the local papers
Ad and press release for each hazardous waste drop-off.
Ads for oil recycling.
DPW newsletter in the quarterly water bill.
Annual DEP funded mailing to residents
Info on WCAT
Annual grade-school program
Ads for mercury recycling mornings at pit.

See pdfs in Files
Yes - an annual MassDEP grant for an all-resident mailing. See FilesYes - they will be scanned in and posted here as time allows. !No. No problem noted as of yet.Given that Wakefield's recycling program has been in place for so many years, a “before and after” may not be the best way to view things. However, numbers are tracked yearly and are available. Recycling revenues to to the general fund. The tangible benefit is revenue and cost-avoidance and thus less pressure on taxpayers.No barriers for residents living in homes with 4 our fewer unitsl. There is a law and fine, but it is not usually enforced.An effective way to get folks to recycle is one-on-one conversation with friends/neighbors. That it saves tax dollars is always worth pointing out!

Note: The door handle flyer is used when it is noted that very few folks on a specific street are recycling.		Wakefield has tried recycling containers around the lake and on the Common. Unfortunately, they got filled up with trash even though placed next to trash barrels. It may be tried again.

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9/27/2008 9:23:30LynnfieldTax Revenues. Weekly pick up; recycling every other week. Have tried to get other programs, but did not work, people are used to doing what they want. NOTE: you can go to Town Hall and buy a sticker for $25 and the 3rd week of trash day of every month you put the sticker on big items ie., computers, etc. and town will pick up.

Started with pre-school and center businesses. Will see what success that is before they expand.Not trending - 19% participattion rate.noTown pays approximately $62 a ton to get rid of all recycling - town gets about $12 per ton for paper. Approx. $82 difference in budget - the return from company is on paper only.
Company supplies bins for paper and plastic (which cost $80-$100) so it was virtually no cost. Also environmental club at high school so the older kids can get involved.
Much of our town has community service with kids.

None. Very sad!!No grants for recycling. However, there were grants for compost/recylcing bins from DPW to DEP.Mostly flyers put in library or sent out with water bills.nonoGeneral Fund.Supposed to be a $50 fine if you don't recycle, but since Lynnfield is a very "throw away town" it's not implemented.Representatives for each sector i.e., age groups, senior center, an elementary/middle school in each district, business person on committee and so forth.It's alot of work to put this all together and constantly get feedback, do research. People sometime fall away. Needs more correspondence with Selectmen; appoint junior members - kids to join the committee (they could do alot of the research, work on a plan and implement, call people to help organize. There is also a Mass. mandate against throwing away recyclables. Most people don't know that. Recycling should be enforced better.

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9/27/2008 9:30:08Cambridge?When the voluntary program was no longer self-supporting due to a drop in the paper market prices, the town moved to a contracted recycling program with every-other week picked and continues to this day.?????MASSDEP FOR RECYCLING, FOR VARIOUS TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE AND TOTERS IN PAST YEARSYES – SEE THE WEBSITE FOR OUR IF IT RIPS CAMPAIGN – LINK ON FRONT PAGE, NOT SURE WHAT YOU MEAN BY FINANCIAL MODELSNOT REALLY – IT’S HARD TO ENFORCE FROM A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE….HISTORY OF WHAT – TRASH TONNAGE?REVENUES GO TO GENERAL FUND, ALTHOUGH $125k ARE ALLOCATED BACK TO THE RECYCLING BUDGET, WHICH HELP OFFSET CPI INCREASES IN THE CURBSIDE COLLECTION CONTRACT. 2X IN THE PAST 6 YEARS, REVENUES HAVE ALSO BEEN ALLOCATED FOR SPECIAL PURPOSED: $40k FOR A WASTE STUDY AND $50 FOR TOTERS TO 6-12 UNIT MULTI-FAMILY BLDGSLACK OF INFO, MOTIVATION, SPACE FOR BINS, LANGUAGES – WE FINE PROPERTY MGRS IF LARGE APT BLDGS ON’T PROVIDE RECYCLING FOR TENANTS, NO FINES ENFORCED AGAINST INDIVIDUAL HOMEOWNERSLOTS OF OUTREACH IN MANY FORMS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, MAILINGS, TABLING AT EVENTS, EMAIL BLASTS, UPDATED WEBSITE, NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR OUTREACH, ETC.