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County seeks to cut GFL hauling costs with compactors, recycling shift to SLM
Summary
Facing an 82% increase proposed by GFL, county staff outlined a plan of compactors, partnership with SLM for recyclables and other operational changes intended to reduce hauling trips and lower the county's trash contract costs.
County staff told commissioners they are pursuing capital investments and operational changes designed to reduce the county's solid-waste hauling costs after receiving a steep proposal from GFL.
Alicia Searcy described the plan: "One of the biggest things that we will be proposing will be the installation of compactors almost at every location, either a cardboard compactor or a trash compactor at every location to reduce the number of trips that GFL will be doing." She added the county expects SLM to collect cardboard and metal and take it directly to their facility "at about half the proposed cost or less than half the proposed cost of what GFL wanted to do." Searcy said she is "hoping that we will be able to get the 3,000,000 down to 2,000,000 at at…
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