When DEP conducted their public hearings to address 'Waste,' several of those in attendance indicated that residents of neighboring communities were taking their trash to Fall River because they could do so for FREE.
The chart [pdf below] indicates for Calendar Year 2008, Fall River recycled 12%.
The community that seeks to become the Incinerator Hub, Taunton, recycled 21%.
New Bedford recycled 18%, Somerset recycled 52%, Middleborough 24%.
Before DEP re-considers incinerators, there are many other options, including recycling and maybe even that Expanded Bottle Bill....and dare we say 'Junk Mail'?
All MA municipalities:
http://www.mass.gov/dep/recycle/priorities/munirate.pdf
A few other articles:
Getting Trashed!
Talking Trash Tuesday, Sept. 21
Talking Trash
DEP: Recycling/Reuse/Compost
PAYT saves municipal dollars
The program so far has saved the city upwards of $1 million in disposal fees, and has increased recycling four-fold since the program was implemented,
PAYT reduced per-household trash costs in Malden by $41.93, and saved the city about $800,000 in disposal fees, based on figures from the first five months of the program’s implementation.
It’s Time to Update the Bottle Bill
Every year across Massachusetts, more than 30,000 tons of non-carbonated
beverage bottles are buried in landfills, burned in waste-to-energy plants, or
tossed onto our streets, parks and beaches. That’s enough plastic bottles to
fill Fenway Park – from the press box to the Green Monster – five times.
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