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Swansea transfer station staff outline recycling pilot, facility upgrades and equipment needs
Summary
Town staff reported progress on recycling pilots, staffing and several planned facility upgrades including a waste-oil building, a second skid-steer and a glass bunker rebuild; staff also described certification work for wastewater operators and a phosphorus-removal pilot test.
Staff at the town transfer station gave the Board of Selectmen a detailed update on recycling operations, pilot programs and planned capital work, saying the town is testing new collection streams and preparing grant applications and an equipment RFP.
The presentation, given during the selectmen’s meeting, covered a pilot for plastics labeled 3–7, compost and brush handling, a phosphorus-removal pilot test at the wastewater plant, a planned waste-oil building replacement with associated grant applications, and a request to procure a second skid-steer to provide operational redundancy.
Staff said the 3–7 plastics pilot began in February and is currently averaging “about a bin every week and a half” at roughly 60–70 pounds per bin; the town is waiting to produce a first bale before wider public rollout. “We started it in February, and we’re averaging about a bin every week and a half,” the staff member…
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