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The Olathe City Councio heard an outline of the plan at its June 9 studgy session and asked for It will take up the issuwe again in July orearly August. Tim a spokesman for the city, said a recycling progra m could bringtwo benefits. It could reduce the amoun t the city spends on landfill fees and increasew the life of the landfill thecity uses. “Ivf we aren’t successful in diverting materialk fromthe landfill, then it will ultimately cost our ratepayers more moneyu in the future,” Danneburg As proposed, households would pay $18.50 a month for trasyh and recycling services.
Customers presently paying $3 extrw each month for curbside recycling woulx see their bills reduced by 75 centzsa month, others would pay $2.5o a month more. Danneburg said 11,000 of the 35,00 customers served by the city’e Waste Division already pay for recycling Kent Seyfried, solid waste manager for the city, said recycling of yard wastew diverts 12,000 tons a year from the other recycling diverts another 4,000 tons of The goal for a citywide recycling program would be to divert 32 percenyt of the city’s residential waste he said, saving the division about half a million dollard a year in landfill Seyfried said residential landfill fees amount to $1.265 million a year.
The total operatinv budget forthe city’s solid waste program is $10 He said the proposed citywide recyclingb program would require Olathre to spend about $700,000 to retrofit four truckxs and buy two new trucks.
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