The Power of PAYT – Worth Coming Back To

In July 2010, the City of Sanford, ME instituted a bag-based pay-asyou-throw (PAYT) program.  Immediately, trash volume dropped by half.  Four months later, the town repealed the program with predictable results: The amount of trash shot up, almost back to where it started.  In September, 2013, Sanford reinstated PAYT, with impressive results.