Wayland Town Crier 1/8/15: Appeal on access road in Wayland denied. An appeal with the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) by 10 Wayland residents…

Wayland Patch 5/24/12: Wayland Recycling Goes Single Stream on Saturday. Visitors to the Wayland Transfer Station Saturday might not notice a change immediately, but they certainly will when it comes time to drop off their recycling. Beginning Saturday, residents can stop separating their recyclables into glass; comingled plastic, cans and foil; and paper and cardboard. Thanks to an agreement with a new processing company, Casella Waste Systems, all those items can go in a single bin come Saturday.

Wayland Patch 2/28/12: Give-And-Take Set to Return to Wayland Transfer Station. The small grassy island surrounded by labeled recycling dumpsters and places for orange bags of trash and donation bins for various nonprofits has been strangely vacant for the past couple of months. That island at the Wayland Transfer Station is the home of the popular give-and-take pile during warm months, but in the winter, it's home to snow piles cleared from the transfer station roads.

Since September 28, 2010, the Town of Sudbury and the Town of Wayland have conducted a pilot weekday project to allow residents of either town…

Wayland Patch 4/14/11: Sudbury Selectmen Reject Shared Transfer Station with Wayland. The Board of Selectmen voted not to approve a consolidated Sudbury/Wayland transfer station, laying to rest an issue that has caused an impassioned response by residents, a number of whom reiterated their objections to the possibility at Tuesday night’s Board meeting. In a public hearing that was a continuation of comments made by residents at the last Board meeting, attendees cited reasons against a combined station ranging from inconvenience to perceived poor management of the Wayland station, and urged the Board to make a motion against station consolidation.

Wayland Town Crier 4/13/11: Sudbury rejects plans to merge transfer station with Wayland. The Sudbury Board of Selectmen Tuesday determined that the minimal cost savings to merge the transfer station with Wayland would not be worth what Sudbury would lose in terms of quality. By a 2-0 vote, with Chairman John Drobinski absent, the board decided to end the eight-month experiment, effective July 1, and possibly sooner if Wayland agrees. Last September, Wayland and Sudbury instituted a joint pilot project, with the intent to save money, allowing residents from both towns to use the transfer station in either town on different days. The stations are located within a quarter of a mile of each other. There were some surprises. Wayland commingles its recycled items. In Sudbury, they must be sorted. Bulky waste also differed. Sudbury charges $32 per cubic yard for bulky waste for items such as carpeting, furniture, building debris, tires, and refrigerators. Wayland has a one-time fee of $40 for bulky items. Wayland residents also liked the quality of items they found at Sudbury’s Put & Take. Sudbury also gives a senior discount; Wayland does not.

Wayland Town Crier 11/24/10p: Towns to test traffic before consolidating transfer stations. Sudbury and Wayland officials have proposed closing the Sudbury transfer station two Saturdays in December to test another element of criteria before consolidating the two stations, Sudbury Town Manager Maureen Valente said at the selectmen’s meeting Monday evening. “Valente and Wayland Town Administrator Fred Turkington discussed closing Sudbury’s Transfer Station for two consecutive Saturdays to see if one location can handle the traffic,” said Sudbury Board of Selectmen Chairman John Drobinski. Because both towns want to reduce the cost of municipal services by sharing and improved cooperation, they implemented the transfer station pilot project Sept. 28. The pilot program allows residents of either town to use the transfer station in Wayland on Tuesdays and in Sudbury on Thursdays. Currently, residents of each town continue to use their own transfer station on Saturdays. If the transfer station pilot project proves beneficial, Sudbury and Wayland could each save between $40,000 and $60,000 annually.