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Multifamily housing represents one of the largest opportunities to increase recycling rates in the state and advance Massachusetts’ solid waste reduction goals.

Municipalities will be able to apply the toolkit’s resources and practices to public housing. 

By ensuring equitable recycling access, municipalities will: 

  • Be in compliance with MassDEP waste bans
  • Support environmental justice goals.
  • Reduce disposal costs that may affect publicly-funded housing budgets. 
Step 1Provides context and tools to help municipalities understand their current recycling landscape, identity gaps, and track progress over time.
Tools
Step 2Offers information and resources regarding policy, authority, and enforcement mechanisms
Tools
Step 3Aligns municipal leaders with property managers and haulers through recommendations for contracting, permitting, and communicating expectations.
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Board of HealthDPW
Role
  • Enforcement of state and local health and sanitary regulations, including waste bans
  • Addressing public health risks associated with improper waste management
  • Direct operational management of muni trash, recycling and disposal programs
Duties
  • Approval and inspection of waste management sites such as landfills and material recovery facilities (MRFs)
  • Issuing permits for waste facilities and haulers
  • Enforcing violations and fines as needed
  • Acting upon complaints of improper solid waste disposal
  • Implementing operational logistics of waste bans such as contracting haulers and staffing transfer station
  • Providing residents with bins, totes or other means of waste ban materials collection
  • Running events to collect hazardous and hard to recycle materials
  • Educating residents on waste ban compliance
Authority
  • Enforce regulations governing the removal, storage, transportation and disposal of solid waste
  • Approve, rescind, suspend, or modify permits for solid waste facilities and haulers
  • Manage any contracts for waste and recycling collection
  • Operate transfer station in compliance with state waste bans
  • Manage hazardous waste