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Challenges and
Smart Solutions
Challenge – Municipal Budgets

The rising costs of waste disposal and collection have created shortfalls in department budgets. Current economic conditions have had a negative effect and overall tax revenue is down. Cities and towns are looking for ways to continue services without raising taxes. Departments are forced to cut back yet try to maintain continuity of service.
SMART Solution

Reducing waste reduces disposal costs and increases recycling revenue potential. This is found money that was being buried or burned. Municipalities can not afford to continue promoting wasteful behavior by covering up the cost of disposal in the general fund. Residents have a right to know where money is being spent. SMART waste management gives residents the right to choose how much or how little they want to pay for trash. Poll ChartThe Wall Street Journal on line poll found 84% of readers want to pay as they go for waste.

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Challenge – Education

Educating the general public on waste reduction and recycling is complicated, costly, and nearly impossible. Last year the advertising industry spent …billion dollars trying to convenience consumers to change behavior. Individual cities and towns are faced with the same advertising challenges as Procter and Gamble with a minimal budget. Recycling is not a simple subject. Defining the message to meet a diverse audience is an overwhelming task…


SMART Solution -

SMART programs make residents aware of the real value of trash and create an incentive to read and learn what is really recyclable in their community . Recycling is simple if residents are motivated to learn. Its like taking a test in school (on something simple) if you learn the material you definitely get an A. If not, performance is somewhere between poor to good. SMART residents always get an A because it costs them a little more to get a B. SMART residents save money when they recycle.