On March 18, 2008 the Town Council had a workshop with the Solid Waste Committee. The Committee has been researching potential alternatives for the town to consider in handling solid waste and gave a very thoughtful presentation. The Town Council had specifically asked the committee to investigate the options of pay-per-throw and regionalizing solid waste collection. The committee’s research included visits and phone calls to other towns and visits from and calls to a variety of waste companies.

Sorry it took so long to write it up. Darn that day job! It seems important to get the information up now since pay-per-throw is part of the Council’s plan to deal with the budget this year. There are no minutes to the meeting posted yet on the town web site. If anyone from the Solid Waste Committee has corrections or additions to my notes, please put them in comments.

In their presentation the committee gave information on the following options:

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