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Ossipee residents urge improved recycling, board weighs costs and logistics
Summary
Residents and conservation-commission members urged the Select Board to expand recycling and restart hazardous-waste collection; transfer-station staff said aluminum recouped revenue but plastics and mixed paper are costly and need storage and market solutions.
Brad Marion, a member of the town’s Conservation Commission, urged the Select Board to expand recycling and reduce the amount of plastic and paper that now goes into the municipal waste stream. “TJ Eldridge has done a great job managing the transfer station,” Marion said, and offered a spreadsheet analysis suggesting the town could recover revenue by better sorting and baling certain plastics and by modestly raising scale fees for construction waste.
The recommendation drew a detailed response from transfer-station staff. Unidentified Speaker 5, who described day-to-day operations at the facility, said…
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