Manchester-by-the-Sea

Curbside Compost Collection

Starts April 14th

R3, April 8th, 2014

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The program:

• Modeled after other programs—personal connections with Hamilton/Wenham

• Residents collect food scraps in their kitchen

• Place in their curbside cart/container on a regular basis

• Wheel their cart to the curb once a week before 7am for pick up

Drivers and Benefits• The State plans to ban food waste

starting with commercial generators this year (Organics = 40% of generated waste,

next hit on the waste ban list)

• $72 per ton to dispose of its trash

• Residents pay per bag to dispose of their trash

• $ 40,000+ DEP grant for 2,300 carts,

technical assistance and education

• Wastewater Treatment Plant Impacts

• 300 tons per year organic waste diversion

• Net cost increase of $8,000 (2%) AND

takes us to weekly, single stream recycling

• 4 months from Selectmen vote to first

collection

• Wildly popular by

residents…and…politicians

• Further greening of our community

To my municipal staff colleagues:

Takeaway #1

(Better, just get out of the way)

#2

“Yabuts”: There are no

“yabuts” for this.

Hearing it for the first time: I guess it’s a nice idea….

• Yabut #1 - too bleeding edge. Too many unanswered questions. No infrastructure for something like this in my area of the state. Just a couple of tiny examples in Mass. Need pilot studies, etc..

• Yabut #2 - I just don’t have the time, as much as I’d love to see this done

• Yabut #3 – even if it works, will citizens

and politicians get behind it? It’ll be a lot

of work to educate and get support from

citizens and politicians

Citizens

Politicians

Haulers and

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Town

Staff

Yabut #1:

No Haulers in my area that

can do organics collection,

especially residential

curbside

• Hiltz, our hauler, sees it as a business opportunity, and is actively offering communities to revise their collection programs

• Like many haulers, they are already collecting from commercial generators: pre-waste ban.

• 90 days to get a split single stream recycling/organics truck

Yabut #1:

There aren’t any

processors in my area to

support collection

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Yabut #1:

Too bleeding edge

• Norseman: sold 2,000,000 curbside

organic bins to date

• All sizes of communities across North

America, Europe

• Too Hot in the summer? Try Austin

• Too much N.I.H. in Mass.!

Yabut #2

Staff just doesn’t have the

time

(See Yabuts #1 and #3)

Hint: Get out of the way

• See #1 and #3

• Get out of the way

Yabut #3

Will Citizen and Politicians

Support?

• Citizens organized in days

• Core group of ~10

• Initial list of 60 supporters

• Green Scholars Program

• Politicians extremely receptive

• Citizens group extremely professional and pragmatic

• Working task force researched and presented

findings to Selectmen in December. Adopted

unanimously.

• Designed and intensive marketing campaign

– Technical literature, how to, FAQ’s

– Extensive, professional outreach program

– Create and staff hot line

• “I think everyone is passionate because we can see that a small thing that each individual can do, cumulatively, can make a big difference.”

- Linda Kaplan, Committee Member

• "Maybe the passion is because this is different. Processing stays local. You can hold the product of your efforts in your hands”

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• “This is much easer than starting up a new curbside recycling program”

- John T, Hiltz Waste

Portland, OR: “Today, between composting and

recycling, the city diverts 78 percent of its waste from

landfills.” ……“When Portland launched its

composting program, it cut back its weekly garbage

collection to every other week. Customers just weren’t

producing as much trash” - Governing Magazine

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• Modeled after program started in 2009 in hamilton/wenham

• Residents collect food scraps in their kitchen

• Place in their curbside cart/container on a regular basis

• Wheel their cart to the curb once a week before 7am for pick up

How Does it Work?

(Logistics)

GrantsThe following grants were applied for and received

Fall 2013.

• 80 hour In-kind Technical Assistance Grant

• $43,900 for Wheeled Food Waste Containers for all

Manchester residents (also includes a kitchen counter

top container)

• $1,098 for Education / Implementation materials

Note: Above received by Town of Manchester-by-the-Sea

from Mass DEP

Current Proposed

• Bi-weekly recyclables

• Weekly trash

• Weekly recyclables

• Weekly compost

• Bi-weekly trash

Current vs. Proposed Trash

Collection