3/2/2015 WASTE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Minutes

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David Quinn Mike Richardson introduced David Quinn and said David was here for the February 17`h Committee meeting but we couldn't hold the meeting due to lack of quorum present. Those members present on February 17'h did have a very informative informal discussion"with David and he agreed to return for this meeting. David Quinn gave a brief rundown of his background. • David works with all 15 towns on Cape and the towns on the Island on waste reduction. That can include from helping town get grants for getting equipment to make recycling more efficient to doing public outreach and education; and working with towns on pay- as-you-throw. • 3 towns on Cape have pay-as-you-throw; a couple of others have looked at it but decided not to go that way. • Single stream in Mashpee originally showed jump in recycling and now hit a plateau. That is typical. With pay-as-you-throw, at first you do see benefit,but then at some point things do level. • Geoff Gorman asked whether any metric or new procedure grants are available. David said annual DEP grants–soiree for equipment; organics; DEP enforcement officer. • For single stream,plastic bags one of the major contaminants. John Cahalan noted that environmentally the New Bedford outfit has one of the better systems for separating recyclables. • David suggested town have some type of low-income cost. • Inform people size of bag used. • Wayne BevAcqua asked about pilot program being done for dual system—sticker/pay-as- you-throw. David said Rockport has 30%pay-as-you-throw and remainder sticker but there is not much of an impact. • In trash: 78%is recyclable; rest is trash. Discussion Some of the points made during discussion included the following: • Focus on education and you see maybe 10%reduction in waste;but charging for trash and you get 40-50%reduction in waste. • Town of Sandwich went pay-as-you-throw and they lost 5-10%users initially,but they got some of them back. Sandwich had to increase sticker fee. • Tom O'Hara said Mashpee had 2 non-binding Town votes. Fust one was 3-1 against pay-as-you-throw; second one was 2-1 against pay-as-you-throw. Kalliope Egloff said it is all in the way the vote is worded. To word"keeping as it is"is not going to happen anymore. People have to be informed about that. Kalliope said if you ask people do you really want to pay this cost for disposing of trash and they know what that means,you are going to get different vote. • John Cahalan stated presentations for both"pro"and"con"should be made. • Richard Elrick said Plymouth has dual system-curbside or Transfer Station and both items are priced accordingly. Also,they are a pay-as-you-throw community. • Richard Elrick noted it is important to have good information. He provided a copy of a survey Barnstable used. Mike Richardson asked the Committee whether they would have an interest in or objection to using Mashpee TV to educate on cost of trash disposal. The Committee voiced support and suggested involving Mashpce High School seniors in the project. Kalliope said Mashpee TV would produce and then put it out on the Internet. 2