municipal1 getting to yes: winchester, prassede calabi
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Prassede Calabi and Norman Doucette, Winchester, discuss how Winchester implemented SMART.TRANSCRIPT
• Norman Doucette, Winchester DPW,
• Prassede Calabi, Trash Pickers
• (Winchester DPW)
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Conditions Self-supporting Transfer Station
No curbside pick-up
5000 HH, fee –base
Changes in Trash practice Dual stream to Single stream (townwide)
SMART pilot program (500 HH)
(private food waste composting option:
HH AND pilot restaurant program)
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Effects of change -
RECYCLING: 2012, 2013
Dual to Single Stream
Recycling increase: 95 tons
SW decrease: 283 tons
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Effects of change -
SMART: prelim data (March)
• Trash Recycling RATIO
2013 All HH 340 ton 143 2.4
2014 non-SMART HH 337 102 3
2014 SMART HH 10 16 0.60
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NET effects of all change
Trash/ HH Tons Trash
/Year to Recycling
• INITIALLY 1.1 tons ~3/1
• Single Stream 1 ton ~2.4/1
• SMART pilot 0.18 tons 1/1.6
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Sequence Thrash around
Identify the problem(s)
Cast about for solutions
Try to implement them
Find work-around for apparent barriers
e.g. our first step
- residential trash
- at transfer Station
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• change in staff, government
(retirements, elections, new leaders)
• cultural change
• related already existing programs
• MassDEP recycling coordinator!
• chance!
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• Partner with DPW /whoever
• Crunch cost/savings numbers
• Present the data to ‘everyone’
- municipal government (TM, BOS)
- residents, (utility bills, on town website)
- write newspaper, (online and hardcopy)
- post on residents’ FB pages
- Talk (Rotary, LWV, Scouts)
- Leaflet (Town Day/ Farmer’s Market/ schools)
- Email school- parents
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• grant: MassDEP Recycling Coordinator
• Electronic Survey “info w/o confrontation”
• ask enough questions
• make it safe to lead
• allow data-based decisions
• perspective on trash ideas
• know your audience
• Seize opportunities
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• identify problem(s)
• build “cred,”
- financial cred
- emotional cred (happiness)
• make data-based decisions
• start with easy-to-implement change
• survey is information w/o confrontation
JUST DO WHAT IT TAKES!
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• DPW esp. Jay Gill, LeeAnn Mcgahan
• Town Manager Richard Howard
• Acting Town Manager Mary Ellen Lannon
• Board Of Selectmen
• Trash Pickers esp I.Geis, F.Nace, J.Cabral
• Carolyn Dann, Mass DEP
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Effects of change -
RECYCLING:
Dual to Single Stream
Dual SR 2011-2012 1633 tons
SSR 2012- 2013 1728 tons
NET recycling increase: 95 tons
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