Finance Committee - 10/04/2017 Page 11
that working cooperatively with other communities nearby has allowed us to get a higher level of grant money
from the state to get more stuff out of the waste stream in our immediate district. It has worked very well. This
is simply an agreement codifying what we do now. Right now what we do is we have five events held in
Nashua at the public works garage each year. It’s been the same for a long time. The district also provides
one or two satellite collections at the extremes of the district, either Pelham or Milford, to gather more people
from that side of the district. Because we have the landfill and we have the most population of all of the
communities, it really behooves us to have these events held here. We appreciate that.
Ms. Czysz
| am interim executive director at NRPC. Our role in this is we provide the staffing support to the district and to
each of the municipalities as part of the cooperative agreement. We have provided those services since the
mid-1980s when the district was established. Our goal here is to make sure that the communities are
successful and have some positive events where they can get the household hazardous waste out of the
waste stream.
Alderman Siegel
Is there a collection this Saturday?
Ms. Hyland
There is, thank you for brining that up. In Nashua at the public works garage from 8:00 a.m. to noon. We
anticipate a good turnout for the October event. After this we have one more event on the first Saturday in
November. Then we'll start up again in April.
Alderman Lopez
| just want to remind everybody that | work with Safe Stations. Does this include needle collection?
Ms. Hyland
No, it doesn’t. We do not collect any kind of prescription drugs or over-the-counter drugs at these events.
Unidentified Speaker
If we do get calls from people who are looking to dispose of needles, we have literature to tell them where safe
places are to dispose of that.
Alderman Siegel
So no latex paint, but if you put kitty litter in it and dry it out and remove it, you can throw the latex paint can
away. Is that still true?
Ms. Hyland
The Department of Environmental Services says that latex paint once it is solidified can go into the landfill. So
we ask residents to do that, add kitty litter or anything to dry it out so it is not pourable and then bring it to the
landfill and put it in the trash. | also ask them to put it into plastic trash bags so nobody sees them doing it and
thinks, “Oh, | will put my hazardous waste there too.”
Mayor Donchess
Bring it to the landfill rather than put it in the tot?
