Town of IpswichWorking With the Hauler: A Collaborative Effort for Tough Times

BACKGROUND4 bag/barrel limit enforced 2006

3 bag/barrel limit implemented 2008$2 overthrow sticker

2 bag/barrel limit implemented January 2010

1 bag/barrel limit and single-stream recycling implemented July 2010 $2 overthrow bag replaces sticker

JRM’s Collection Role Ipswich awards JRM their trash/recycling

collection contract in 2010. JRM owns recyclables but agreed to pay

the Town a small rebate for all its recycling tonnage.

From the beginning, JRM told the Town they would use a split-body collection truck and sort single-stream recyclables into dual stream if presented as such or easily sorted at the curb.

Ipswich’s Role Ipswich and its 9-member Recycling

Advisory Committee are very proactive on educating its residents about waste reduction and recycling right.

Their one-barrel trash limit is strictly enforced by JRM and backed up by Town Hall.

Non-compliant recycling or trash is stickered and left at the curb by JRM (manual collection makes this easy).

Ipswich’s Role, cont’d. The Town operates a free Recycling and Yard

Waste Drop-off open 2 days a week. Mercury waste can also be brought to the Drop-

off. Button-cell batteries are collected all year at

several locations in town, including Town Hall. In addition, the Town’s Recycling Committee puts

on 3 zero-waste events a year. The Town and Recycling Committee also offer

weekly (private-pay) food-waste collection for $1 per week per household (470 to date).

JRM’s Processing Role In Winter 2015, JRM opened

GreenWorks, a state-of-the-art, single-stream MRF in Peabody.

75% of the material coming into the MRF is dual stream. Of the 17 municipalities JRM serves, most remain dual-stream recycling and all are manually collected, making it easier to spot contamination.

JRM’s Processing Role, cont’d. GreenWorks positively sorts out glass first,

making it the only MA single-stream MRF whose glass goes directly to Strategic Materials* (glass recycler).

With the glass out, all of the other commodities are cleaner – especially paper.

JRM reports that they have no challenges selling their fiber (paper) bales.

ipswichrecycles.orgipswichcomposts.org

marlenec@ipswich-ma.gov781.334.5426

Special thanks to Ipswich Recycling Advisory Committee