Falmouth plans five-year extension with Nauset adding 22K+ municipal trash totes; FY27 cost estimated about $3.9 million
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Town Manager Mike Rentshaw outlined negotiations with Nauset/Waste Connections for a five-year extension that would add municipal solid-waste tote containers for roughly 22,000–23,000 accounts, offer multiple tote sizes, shift cart maintenance to the provider, and raise the town's FY27 solid-waste budget to about $3.9 million.
Mike Rentshaw described months of negotiations with the town's current solid-waste provider, Nauset/Waste Connections (which took over from Republic in 2022), toward a proposed five-year extension that would include municipal solid-waste totes for approximately 22,000–23,000 accounts.
Rentshaw said the earlier high figures were substantially reduced through negotiation to a number the town considers manageable in hopes of adding tote service for all accounts. He outlined the planned cart-size options (92-gallon for large households, 64-gallon standard, and a 32-gallon option for smaller households) and said the town will run an education campaign similar to prior recycling-container rollouts.
Rentshaw also said the contract would shift responsibility for maintaining recycling carts back to the provider so town road crews can focus on road work. He provided cost context: the combined FY26 cost for recycling and municipal solid-waste programs is about $3.8 million, increasing to roughly $3.9 million in FY27 (an increase of about $100,000). The town plans to have containers delivered in early to mid-May to prepare for the summer season.
Next steps: staff will finalize the contract extension language and the public-education rollout; no formal roll-call vote was reported during the broadcast.
