The Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) has eight Municipal Assistance Coordinators (MACs) who provide technical assistance on waste reduction and recycling to geographically-based groups of towns and cities. To find the MAC who serves your community, check the district listings below.
Guide MassDEP Municipal Assistance Coordinators
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Central District
Irene Congdon
Host: Town of Leicester
Phone: 978-597-9191
Email: irene_congdon1@yahoo.com
Communities Served (75): Ashburnham, Ashby, Athol, Auburn, Ayer, Barre, Bellingham, Berlin, Blackstone, Bolton, Boylston, Brookfield, Charlton, Clinton, Devens, Douglas, Dudley, Dunstable, East Brookfield, Fitchburg, Gardner, Grafton, Groton, Hardwick, Harvard, Holden, Hopedale, Hubbardston, Hudson, Lancaster, Leicester, Leominster, Littleton, Lunenburg, Marlborough, Maynard, Mendon, Milford, Millbury, Millville, New Braintree, North Brookfield, Northborough, Northbridge, Oakham, Oxford, Paxton, Pepperell, Petersham, Phillipston, Princeton, Royalston, Rutland, Shirley, Shrewsbury, Southborough, Southbridge, Spencer, Sterling, Stow, Sturbridge, Sutton, Templeton, Townsend, Upton, Uxbridge, Ware, Warren, Webster, West Boylston, West Brookfield, Westborough, Westminster, Winchendon, Worcester
Northeast District 1
Dawn Quirk
MassDEP Boston
Phone: 617-292-5557
Email: dawn.quirk@state.ma.us
Communities Served (4): Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville
Northeast District 2
Sharon Kishida
Host: City of Beverly
Phone: 978-605-2409
Email: skishida@beverlyma.gov
Communities Served (39): Amesbury, Beverly, Boxford, Chelsea, Danvers, Essex, Everett, Georgetown, Gloucester, Groveland, Hamilton, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lynn, Lynnfield, Malden, Manchester, Marblehead, Melrose, Merrimac, Middleton, Nahant, Newbury, Newburyport, North Reading, Peabody, Reading, Revere, Rockport, Rowley, Salem, Salisbury, Saugus, Swampscott, Topsfield, Wakefield, Wenham, West Newbury, Winthrop
Northeast District 3
Julia Greene
Host: Town of Bedford
Phone: 781-918-4271
Email: jgreene@bedfordma.gov
Communities Served (36): Acton, Andover, Arlington, Bedford, Belmont, Billerica, Boxborough, Burlington, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Framingham, Lawrence, Lexington, Lincoln, Lowell, Medford, Methuen, Natick, Needham, Newton, North Andover, Stoneham, Sudbury, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, Waltham, Watertown, Wayland, Wellesley, Westford, Weston, Wilmington, Winchester, Woburn
Southeast District 1
Kari Parcell
Cape Cod Cooperative Extension, Barnstable
Phone: 508-375-6974
Email: kari.parcell@barnstablecounty.org
Communities Served (23): Aquinnah, Barnstable, Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Chilmark, Dennis, Eastham, Edgartown, Falmouth, Gosnold, Harwich, Mashpee, Nantucket, Oak Bluffs, Orleans, Provincetown, Sandwich, Tisbury, Truro, Wellfleet, West Tisbury, Yarmouth
Southeast District 2
Kathi Mirza
Host: City of Taunton
Phone: 508-821-9469
Email: kmirza@taunton-ma.gov
Communities Served (44): Acushnet, Ashland, Attleboro, Avon, Berkley, Canton, Dartmouth, Dedham, Dighton, Dover, Easton, Fairhaven, Fall River, Foxborough, Franklin, Freetown, Holliston, Hopkinton, Lakeville, Mansfield, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Milton, New Bedford, Norfolk, North Attleborough, Norton, Norwood, Plainville, Randolph, Raynham, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Sharon, Sherborn, Somerset, Stoughton, Swansea, Taunton, Walpole, Westport, Westwood, Wrentham
Southeast District 3
Todd Koep
Host: Town of Halifax
Phone: 781-293-1775
Email: tkoep@town.halifax.ma.us
Communities Served (31): Abington, Braintree, Bridgewater, Brockton, Carver, Cohasset, Duxbury, East Bridgewater, Halifax, Hanover, Hanson, Hingham, Holbrook, Hull, Kingston, Marion, Marshfield, Mattapoisett, Middleborough, Norwell, Pembroke, Plymouth, Plympton, Quincy, Rochester, Rockland, Scituate, Wareham, West Bridgewater, Weymouth, Whitman
Western District
Veronique Blanchard
Host: City of Pittsfield
Phone: 413-325-3472
Email: VBlanchardMAC@comcast.net
Communities Served (100): Adams, Agawam, Alford, Amherst, Ashfield, Becket, Belchertown, Bernardston, Blandford, Brimfield, Buckland, Charlemont, Cheshire, Chester, Chesterfield, Chicopee, Clarksburg, Colrain, Conway, Cummington, Dalton, Deerfield, East Longmeadow, Easthampton, Egremont, Erving, Florida, Gill, Goshen, Granby, Granville, Great Barrington, Greenfield, Hadley, Hampden, Hancock, Hatfield, Hawley, Heath, Hinsdale, Holland, Holyoke, Huntington, Lanesborough, Lee, Lenox, Leverett, Leyden, Longmeadow, Ludlow, Middlefield, Monroe, Monson, Montague, Monterey, Montgomery, Mount Washington, New Ashford, New Marlborough, New Salem, North Adams, Northampton, Northfield, Orange, Otis, Palmer, Pelham, Peru, Pittsfield, Plainfield, Richmond, Rowe, Russell, Sandisfield, Savoy, Sheffield, Shelburne, Shutesbury, South Hadley, Southampton, Southwick, Springfield, Stockbridge, Sunderland, Tolland, Tyringham, Wales, Warwick, Washington, Wendell, West Springfield, West Stockbridge, Westfield, Westhampton, Whately, Wilbraham, Williamsburg, Williamstown, Windsor, Worthington