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Council weighs ending city curbside recycling as sanitation crews face truck shortages and rising costs
Summary
Council discussed a proposal to discontinue the city’s curbside recycling pickup after staff said contamination, broken trucks and staffing constraints make the current service unsustainable. Alternatives discussed include drop-off containers, third-party collection, or raising rates to cover costs; no final vote was taken.
City Council heard an extended discussion about the future of the municipal curbside recycling program after sanitation staff and council members described repeated equipment breakdowns, route duplication and contamination of recyclables that increase costs.
Sanitation supervisors told council the department has been running extra routes, making double passes to collect trash and recyclables, and operating with several trucks out of service. The city’s current recycle program requires staff to make a second pass to collect mixed recyclables; staff said roughly half of curbside recycling loads have contained nonrecyclable contamination and at times the recycler has refused materials at the facility, requiring those loads to be sent to the…
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