Upcoming Household Hazardous Waste Collections | |
Click on the image for a map of all 2014 HHW collections
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Town: Brewster, Chatham and Harwich
Date: August 9, 9am-noon
Location: Harwich Transfer Station, 209 Queen Anne Road
Towns: Bourne, Falmouth, Mashpee, Sandwich, Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod
Date: August 16, 9am-1 pm
Location: Mashpee High School, 500 Old Barnstable Road (off Route 151)
Town: Yarmouth
Date: Sept. 6, 9am-noon
Location: Yarmouth Senior Center, 528 Forest Road, West Yarmouth
Town: Dennis
Date: Sept. 13, 9am-1 pm
Location: Tony Kent Arena, 8 South Gages Way, South Dennis
Towns: Brewster, Chatham and Harwich
Date: Sept. 13, 9am-noon
Location: Harwich Transfer Station, 209 Queen Anne Road
Towns: Eastham & Orleans
Date: Sept. 20, 9am-noon
Location: Orleans DPW / Highway Garage (22 Bay Ridge Lane).
Click here for HHW collection schedule for the entire year.
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If a business needs help setting up a recycling program- you now have a number to give them. Call (888) 254-5525 or email info@RecyclingWorksMA.com The Recycling Works program is run by the Center for Eco Technology, under a contract with MassDEP. Click here to learn how to install the RecyclingWorks widget on your local website. |
Funded in part through a grant from Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protections
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Contact Me:
Dave Quinn Regional Waste Reduction Coordinator, Barnstable County dquinn@barnstablecounty.org (508) 375-6974
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Cape Cod Pay-As-You-Throw Results:
Three towns on the Cape have recently implemented Pay-As-You-Throw (SMART) programs. All three have seen significant decreases in their trash tonnage and increases in recycling. Click on the links below for more details from each town.
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Project Ideas? Need Assistance? Apply for a Technical Assistance Grant.If you have an ongoing project that you would like assistance with, please submit an application for In-Kind Technical Assistance (TA) to MassDEP through ReTRAC Connect (connect.re-trac.com).
This will allow you to reserve a specific amount of my time and help me plan projects for the upcoming year. The In-Kind TA application is due on August 26, 2014.
Please email (dquinn@barnstablecounty.org) or call me (508-375-6974) to discuss project ideas.
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Barnstable County's first ever Regional Hard Drive Disposal event was held on June 16th. The event provided an opportunity for Cape Cod towns to dispose of old municipal hard drives in a secure, effective, environmentally responsible and affordable manner.
Barnstable County IT selected an e-stewards certified vendor, Metech, for the collection to ensure that the hard drives are disposed of properly. A total of 808 hard drives were securely collected, the data was destroyed and the components were recycled.
Read more about the event...
When selecting a vendor for any type of electronic waste, please remember to ask if the vendor is e-stewards or R2 certified. There are some key differences between the two certifications, but both contain measures to deal with environmental, safety, health, and security aspects of e-waste recycling.
Municipalities can also use the state contract FAC82 (formerly FAC53) - it was finalized this past April and includes an e-waste category. All vendors in the state contract are e-steward or R2 certified (or both).
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Paint Stewardship Update
 A paint stewardship bill (S.2222) has now been filed in the Massachusetts Senate by Senator Richard Moore.
A hearing in the committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture is expected soon. You can track the status of the bill on the legislature's website, available here: |
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In the News:
Here are a few solid waste and recycling related stories from around the Cape and beyond. Click on the underlined links below to read the full articles.
Recycling a complicated affair for Barnstable, Yarmouth. The Register. July 28, 2014, Read article...
Swamped swap shop shuttered until further notice. Wicked Local. July 25, 2014. Read Article...
Councilor seeks ban on plastic bags. Barnstable Patriot. July 11, 2014. Read Article...Mixed reviews on Mercury bill. Statehouse News. July 29, 2014. Read Article...
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