I have some other stuff I need to deal with this evening, so I can’t make it to the public questions forum at the high school. But I do love a good paper trail, so I’m posting the email I sent along to the town, Central Mass Disposal, and copied the Worcester Telegram and Gazette for good measure. If they answer, I’ll be happy to post those as well. -T
Unfortunately I can’t make it to the forum this evening, but I had some questions I wanted to send along. For your convenience, I’ve also posted these to my blog and will be more than happy to post your answers along with it for others to see.
1. If a resident wants to haul their own trash, where is the transfer station they would use? And who do we contact for the permit, hours, fees, etc?
2. After I learned of the new trash program from a post on the bulletin board at the post office about a week ago, I inquired to other companies about residential pickup and they told me that they felt because CMD has a municipal contract they weren’t allowed to provide service within the town. Isn’t that sort of restraint of trade, collusion and racketeering? I believe that’s why they had to finally deregulate the cable companies in several neighborhoods allowing folks like RCN into the areas.
3. Is there a plan for follow up on the economic impact of this new policy on local restaurants? I know since the pizza boxes aren’t recyclable, and I can’t afford the space in my toter, I’ll likely buy less pizza from these restaurants. I know if I were the guy who just opened the pizza place over on 20 I’d be pretty dismayed that the town has disuaded folks from bringing him any business. While you may come back with “well that’ll encourage them to use more eco friendly packaging”, that doesn’t hold water since we can’t recycle styrofoam or anything that can’t be cleaned of food waste.