BMPs for Negotiating Municipal Contracts for Waste, Recycling & Composting Part 2

NHDES Credits:  1

Does your municipality have contracts in place for solid waste services, include trash, recycling, and perhaps even composting?  Would you like to understand the purpose and benefit of establishing such contracts and learn best practices for negotiating contract terms?  Does your municipality have contracts in place for solid waste services, include trash, recycling, and perhaps even composting?  Would you like to understand the purpose and benefit of establishing such contracts and learn best practices for negotiating contract terms?  

Join Reagan Bissonnette, Executive Director, and Bonnie Bethune, Member Services Manager of the Northeast Resource Recovery Association to discuss these topics.  Reagan Bissonnette is an attorney with a decade of experience negotiating contracts, and Bonnie Bethune has decades of experience both as a solid waste operator and negotiating solid waste contracts at NRRA.  Attendees will learn: 

  • Tips for managing a Request for Proposal process;
  • Common provisions in contracts for trash, recycling, and composting (including distinctions for single, dual, and source separated recycling); 
  • Advice for negotiating fiscally responsible and sustainable contracts that will stand the test of time and inevitable market changes; and
  • Lessons from sample contracts from New Hampshire municipalities.   


This free webinar is sponsored by NHDES and is available for both NRRA members and nonmembers. 

Viewing this Webinar is eligible for 1.25 NHDES training credit. To receive your credit certificate, please notify info@nrrarecycles.org once you’ve watched the webinar. We will need to verify your viewing of the webinar and then we will issue your credit to the email used to sign into the recording.