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Peachtree City raises recycling fee, limits McIntosh Trail facility hours and to resident-only materials
Summary
Peachtree City officials said the city increased the Keep Peachtree City Beautiful contribution from $1 per quarter to $1 per month and changed hours and eligibility at the McIntosh Trail recycling facility; accepted materials remain glass, paper, cardboard and aluminum.
Peachtree City officials said the city increased the contribution that funds Keep Peachtree City Beautiful from $1 per quarter to $1 per month and revised operations at the McIntosh Trail recycling facility, changes the city said have been in effect for about a month.
The changes were described by a city staff member during a council update. “We had all been paying $1 every quarter into Keep Peachtree City Beautiful operations and we were paying that through the bill of our residential curbside trash hauler,” the staff member said. “We upped the ante to $1 per month.”
The staff member said the facility no longer accepts recyclable materials 24 hours a day and now operates on posted hours to give the site operators a break. “They are now operating on certain posted hours and that is 9 to 5 every day except Sundays 11 to 5 and Mondays they are closed,” the staff member said.
The city said the types of materials accepted at McIntosh Trail remain unchanged: glass bottles and jars; paper (newspapers, magazines and catalogs); cardboard; and aluminum cans. The staff member said the service is now limited to residential recycling materials from Peachtree City residents; businesses and nonresidents must arrange their own recycling services.
City Council “made a change to that,” the staff member said, and the speaker described the revision as already implemented roughly one month earlier. The speaker also identified operators by name when urging community consideration: “We need to give our Al Yogle and our operators a little bit of a break,” the staff member said.
The change shifts responsibility for commercial recycling away from the city-operated center and reduces around-the-clock access previously available to the community. The city did not provide a vote tally or ordinance number during the update; the staff member described the change as a council decision already in effect.
Residents seeking more information were told to consult Peachtree City communications channels and posted facility hours for specifics.
