“…I would be happy to continue this discussion and move the implementation back a year or so and support a tipping fee to act as a bridge until the public has had enough time to see the true benefits of the program and its value to the community.” – Fred Camillo, Greenwich First Selectman Continue Reading →
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Conservation Commission Event to Explain Proposed Pay-As-You-Throw Program
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Learn about the proposed Pay-As-You-Throw program and ways to reduce your trash by waste diversion and recycling. Continue Reading →
Filed under: Around Town, Business, Government, Central Middle School, Connecticut DEEP, Fred Camillo, GRAB, KristenBrown
Higbie: PAYT – Force or persuasion for reducing waste?
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“The number of bureaucrats involved in this PAYT debacle have salaries totaling far greater than our trash disposal bills, perhaps we can start there…or go with Tipping fees like almost EVERY other town in our area.” – Carl Higbie Continue Reading →
Filed under: Letter to the Editor, Carl Higbie, municipal solid waste, PAYT, plastic bags
HIGBIE: Pay as you throw plan is garbage… and is just another tax, but there is a better solution.
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“Aside from the irony of a town that banned plastic bags now forcing you to BUY plastic bags, this is just another tax, the same as raising the mill rate.” – Carl Higbie Continue Reading →
Filed under: Letter to the Editor, Carl Higbie, municipal solid waste, Pay as You Throw, recycling, WasteZero
Goldrick: Greenwich’s Failure to Collect Tipping Fees from Trash Haulers Costs Taxpayers Millions
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“Every town in Connecticut collects a tipping fee. Except Greenwich. Greenwich lets commercial haulers dump their trash at Holly Hill, without reimbursing Greenwich taxpayers for the cost of removal to the landfill and conversion facilities run by Wheelabrator Technologies in Peekskill, New York or Bridgeport.” – Sean Goldrick Continue Reading →