Information for Meeting of Dalton Waste Management & Recycling Committee
Thursday August 12, 2021 6:00 PM EDT

Town of Dalton 
Waste Management and Recycling Committee
Meeting Agenda
Dalton Town Hall
Callahan Room, 462 Main St, Dalton, MA
Thursday August 12th, 2021 @ 6:00pm

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1.	Administrative Items: 
a.	Review and Approval of Meeting Minutes from April 22nd, April 29th and May 20th, 2021
b.	Staffing changes

2.	Updates:  
a.	DEP Education and Enforcement Coordinator Grant Update
b.	Board of Health Revisions to Regulations Ch 604 and Ch 270
c.	Contract with Pittsfield for haulers to tip at Community EcoPower
d.	Condition issues identified at Dalton Transfer Station
e.	Recycling Dividends Program Submission

3.	New & Continuing Business
a.	Logistics and Options for Private Hauler Recycling Tipping at the Transfer Station
i.	Tipping Fee set at $100/ton by Board of Health @7/19/21 meeting
ii.	Logistical changes needed for haulers to tip recycling (scale fencing, low profile dumpsters, additional packer OR loading building)
iii.	Number of haulers interested in using transfer station
b.	Other outreach to residents
i.	Recycling bins 
ii.	Composters
iii.	Educational Material
iv.	Other items
c.	Transfer Station Contract with Casella ending in June 2022
i.	Time to start reviewing current contract to determine desired changes in FY23
1.	Do we want to manage day-to-day operations ourselves or continue to contract?
2.	How can we reduce price of both solid waste and recycling?
3.	How can we encourage use of recycling by residents who use haulers?

4.	Other issues not anticipated by chair 48 hours in advance

5.	Committee Structure and Follow up
a.	Committee structure (how to regard staff positions, identification of empty positions, discussion of chair position)
b.	Date of next meeting