Greenfield’s new wheeled carts will be arriving soon. According to the city’s Communications Director Jonathon Weber, every household and each unit in multi-family structures that are eligible for municipal collection will receive a cart, which the Department of Public Works will deliver to residences over the next two weeks.
The carts are being paid for through a nearly $2.06 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as part of the city鈥檚 rollout of a new automated, single-stream recycling program. The program will use automated trucking equipment to hook onto the carts and lift them to be emptied.
Mayor Ginny Desorgher said the new process will significantly reduce the risk of injury for DPW workers who previously had to lift and manually empty the recycling bins. 鈥淭his is a major step forward for Greenfield. By moving to an automated single-stream system, we are making recycling easier for our residents while ensuring the long-term safety and health of our hardworking city employees.鈥�