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MassDEP webinar offers Pay-As-You-Throw tune-up with fee examples, contract tips and town case studies
Summary
MassDEP municipal assistance coordinators gave Massachusetts towns practical guidance on Pay-As-You-Throw design, fee-setting, contracts and outreach, with numerical fee examples, six municipal case studies and information on grants and technical assistance.
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection staff led an online “PayT tune-up” webinar for municipal officials and staff, offering practical steps to sustain and expand Pay-As-You-Throw (PayT) waste-reduction programs and pointing participants to grants and technical assistance. The session, presented by MassDEP municipal assistance coordinators, covered fee-setting, contract language, monitoring and community examples from Dartmouth, Malden, Natick, North Attleboro, Weston and Worcester.
Why it matters: Pay-As-You-Throw programs aim to make waste costs transparent and incentivize recycling and composting while balancing equity concerns for seniors, low-income households and multifamily dwellings. Municipal officials in more than 160 Massachusetts communities have adopted PayT approaches, and MassDEP said getting fee structure, contracts and outreach right is essential to program…
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