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Advisory committee recommends weekly trash, biweekly recycling and added hauler responsibilities for Plaistow RFP
Summary
A reinstated track committee recommended changes to the town’s residential trash and recycling RFP including weekly curbside trash, biweekly recycling, enhanced hauler community engagement, complaint handling, bulk-pickup options and continued cardboard recycling.
Members of the town’s track committee presented recommendations on May 5 to the Plaistow Board of Selectmen for inclusion in a forthcoming residential trash-and-recycling request for proposals (RFP).
Jay, speaking as the committee representative, said the group supports weekly residential curbside pickup and biweekly recycling, wants the hauler selected to provide stronger community engagement and to assume responsibility for handling residential complaints, and suggested options for bulk pickup and cart replacement.
“We reinstated the track committee to come up with some additional recommendations for residential trash and recycling RFP,” Jay said. He described ideas the committee discussed: asking haulers to provide dumpsters for town events and perform educational outreach, to accept responsibility for answering and resolving resident complaints within service-level expectations, to quote optional bulk-pickup add-ons (for example scheduled bulk weekends or a weekly one-item pickup), and to replace damaged town-issued carts once current supplies are exhausted.
Committee members also recommended keeping the cardboard recycling dumpsters in place and considering an option for residents to purchase smaller carts instead of the standard 96-gallon unit. The committee proposed continued volunteer work on community outreach and waste-reduction initiatives, including Old Home Day engagement and school programs.
Town staff said the RFP work will continue and that the town manager and special-projects coordinator will incorporate feasible recommendations into the June RFP draft; board members signaled consensus to keep the committee active and to include the suggestions as add-ons or contract-negotiation priorities rather than mandatory baseline requirements.
No formal vote was recorded May 5 on changes to the RFP; the board agreed to review an RFP draft at the first June meeting with the intent to distribute the RFP in June.
