Worcester Seeking Feedback on New Strategy to Remove Waste
- Wanjiru Waweru
- Apr 18
- 2 min read
Wanjiru Waweru, Jadetimes Contributor
W. Waweru is a Jadetimes News Reporter Covering America News
Worcester, Massachusetts — The City of Worcester is starting to search out goals for a cleaner future with the latest announcement Zero Waste Master Plan, and project leaders are seeking for feedback from residents and businesses around the city.
The Zero Waste Master Plan stems from the 2021 Green Worcester Plan, and would eventually provide as a roadmap to reduce and prevent waste throughout the city. Programs and strategies being explored and reviewed such as the efficacy of the current residential “Pay-As-You-Throw” yellow bag program, opportunities for food scraps composting, and recent approaches to remove illegal dumping and littering.
On Wednesday, April 17, Miranda Hotham, Worcester’s Zero Waste Coordinator, participated local business leaders at the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce for listening session.
“We live on a finite earth where we’re not getting any more space or land, but we’re still producing more and more trash,” said Hotman. “So we really need a longterm solution so that we’re no longer sending to the landfill.”
Prior any sort of step-by-step strategy could take its define shape, Hotham and others involved in the process want a finish understanding of the day-to-day travel of trash around the city. Consultants processing with the city are in the midst of collecting almost 11 tons of randomly-selected trash samples to arrange and acknowledge it.
“First, we’re going to be taking inventory of all of our current waste that we have,” said Hotham. “Understanding the composition of Worcester’s waste streams, and then we’re going to be coming up with actionable solutions for diversion in the future.”
The Worcester Green Corps has participated in the arrangement and Coordinator Amelia Tieri hopes in addition to providing awareness to issues including littering and illegal dumping, these longstanding issues could be addressed in this important role.
Illegal dumping is a big issue in the city and I would definitely like to see a reduction in the amount of places we’re seeing that,” said Tieri. “I would also just like to see more public trash cans so people have options for where they can dispose of their things.”
The Zero Waste Master Plan would be compled until early 2026, however the months advanced would be appeared several opportunities for the public to be joined with other workshops. People could complete the Worcester Waste Survey. The results would support shape programs, policies, and services.
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