recommendations

Author: Claire Vanderwood

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     <h1>Methodology</h1>
 
-     <div class="sectionbanner">Boston in 2024</div>
+    <h2>boston in 2024</h2>
      <h4>Terminology</h4>
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                                 <li><strong>Tipping Fee:</strong> The cost per ton that municipalities pay to dispose of trash at incineration or landfill facilities. Boston's tipping fee is $103.38 per ton.</li>
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-    <div class="sectionbanner">With Pay as You Throw</div>
+    <h2>with pay as you throw</h2>
     <h4>Terminology</h4>
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                                 <li><strong>Average Reduction:</strong> How much trash 5 cities reduced per household after 5 years with PAYT = 0.260 tons per household.</li>
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-<div class="sectionbanner">Malden: A Case Study</div>
+<h2>malden: a case study</h2>
 <h4>Terminology</h4>
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                                 <li><strong>Per-Household Revenue:</strong> How much money each household generates through PAYT bag and tag sales in Malden.</li>

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-            <div class="sectionbanner">Considerations for Pay as You Throw in Boston</div>
+            <h2>Considerations for pay as you throw in Boston</h2>
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-                    <li><u>PAYT Design May Differ by District:</u></li>                     <ul>
-                            <li>Districts with narrow streets (North End) may not be able to implement city-distributed bins, as trucks that side-load will not have space</li>
-                            <li>Districts with wider streets may benefit from city-distributed bins</li>
+                    <li>PAYT design may differ by district:</li>                     <ul>
+                            <li>Districts with narrow streets (North End) may not be able to implement city-distributed bins, as trucks that side-load will not have space.</li>
+                            <li>Districts with wider streets may benefit from city-distributed bins.</li>
                         </ul>
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-                    <li>To properly measure the efficacy of Pay as You Throw, we recommend calculating the total tonnage of recycling contamination (tons of solid waste disposed in the recycling stream) over time in municipalities that have implemented PAYT. To prove PAYT reduces solid waste disposal, we would need the total tonnage of solid waste to decrease and the recycling contamination rate to stay constant or decrease.</li>
+                    <li>Municipalities that have implemented PAYT have anecdotally reported people driving to other non-PAYT municipalities to dispose of their garbage for free.</li>
 
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-                            <p>Interviews with officials from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, the City of Boston's Zero Waste Initiative team, the University of New Hampshire, the City of Brockton, and the City of Malden.</p>
-                            <p>The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection's Municipal Solid Waste and Recycling surveys from 2009 to 2024, inclusive.</p>
-                            <p>The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection's spreadsheet, "Massachusetts Municipalities with PAYT Programs, June 2025".</p>
-                            <p>The Massachusetts Department of Revenue's Divison of Local Services.</p>
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+            <h2>Next Steps</h2>
+                <ul>
+                    <li>We recommend contacting currently contracted waste management companies to get data on the recycling contamination rate (tonnage of solid waste that has ended up in recycling) in municipalities that have implemented PAYT. If the tonnage of solid waste in the recycling stream has increased post-PAYT, as some of our interviewees suspect, then PAYT may not be effective in reducing solid waste disposal.</li>
+                    <li>Perform a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis to evaluate the financial implications of PAYT for the city and its residents.</li>
+                </ul>
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