7/8/2015 WASTE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Minutes

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Paul Tilton--Sandwich PAYT Pro ram Richard Elrich introduced Paul Tilton. Richard Elrick said he thought it made sense to hear from Paul Tilton because on Cape he has most experience and the background with PAYT program that seems to work the best. Richard said this will give the Committee the chance to raise concerns/issues that have arisen. Paul Tilton said he works in Sandwich; and lives in the Town of Barnstable. He provided a chart showing Sandwich PAYT trash&comparison for FY-11 to FY- 14--copy attached to printed set of these minutes. Highlights of Mr. Tilton's presentation included the following: • PAYT has been successful in Sandwich. Starting 5t'year of the program this fiscal year. • Sandwich farmed a committee like in Mashpee looking to reduce costs. Sandwich committee looked at many various options,including keeping"as is". Ultimately, selected PAYT. • Andrew McKelvey asked whether referendum vote held to implement PAYT. Mr. Tilton responded"no, Selectmen trade the decision to adopt PAYT". Mr.Tilton said they vetted all the options and made a well educated decision on this program. * Sandwich held open public meetings;hold recycling meetings;-held compost meetings. Handed out materials available through DEP, etc. Also,the first week of PAYT Paul Tilton set up a tent at the Transfer Station and gave out brochures, etc.,but he suggested educating everyone way beforehand. • If you make people pay for trash generated,they recycle. • PAYT more equitable method for collecting trash. • PAYT lowest cost option for Sandwich. DEP grants available(they got about$27,000 for starting the system. • They had 50%tax subsidy/50% sticker holder;they wanted to do away with tax subsidy. • 4 years and they are now at 100%PAYT paying and covers their budget. • They separate paper/cardboard from cans,plastics and bottles. Right now company picks up paper/cardboard and takes recyclables at no cost,so it's a wash. « Transfer station accepts metals—generally makes$90,0004100,000 on metals. Paul Tilton said he would provide breakdown of recyclable revenues to John Cahalan as requested. • Sandwich transfer sticker fee is$55. Various sizes/cost for bags. Sticker fee/bags/Transfer Station fees cover all costs. Before PAYT they had no limitation on number of bags being thrown away. • Illegal dumping, large families, etc.was a concern. So they set up a monitoring program and they didn't see any issue except one at the town dumpster. They put a lock on that dumpster and illegal dumping stopped. • Made effort for seniors,but didn't offer cheaper bags for larger families. Mr.Tilton said if they recycle,they'll reduce their costs. Paul Tilton went through his own household trash and went from 30%to 65-70%reduction. • Kalliope asked if Sandwich experienced"angry masses"? Paul responded"yes". He said they got a number of calls and heard a lot of opposition. They lost about 9%of sticker holders—out of 5500 they lost about 500. Last year number of sticker holders went up. First year heard opposition;at this point don't hear anything. Occasionally hear about ripped bags,but the company refunds the bags. • Some people will always try to beat the system so you do have to monitor. • Sandwich has vendor for the bags,but town employees operate the Transfer Station. Vendors make small amount on the bags; stores don't make anything off selling the bags. • Operating costs lower----don't have to deal with solid waste as much;transport less; so staff moved somewhere else,--cleaning beaches,etc. • Closed Transfer Station 1 additional day----open 5 days per week. Sandwich not a major "seasonal"town. 2