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Harden Sanitation reports 2024 diversion gains, asks council to work on commercial overage charges
Summary
Harden Sanitation told the Eagle City Council it landfilled 49 million pounds of trash in 2024 and diverted 4.5 million pounds to recycling, highlighted route changes and asked the city to direct staff to help create commercial 'overage' charges and enforcement against illegal haulers.
Mark (last name not provided), Harden Sanitation’s representative, gave the council a 2024 year‑end review on Jan. 28, saying the contractor now serves about 12,000 homes and 500 businesses in Eagle and that recycling tonnage rose by roughly 500,000 pounds from 2023.
“We landfilled over 49,000,000 pounds of trash. We diverted 4 and a half million of those pounds to recycling,” he said, and added Harden donated $40,000 of services to city events in 2024.
Mark described operational improvements — a reroute of residential and commercial routes to account for growth, two new trucks assigned to Eagle, a 95% telephone-answer rate after hiring…
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