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Austin Resource Recovery updates committee on curbside recycling trends and solar panel recycling operations
Summary
ARR reported a small decline from recent peak recycling tonnages, plans to add aseptic packaging to curbside collection, and described a residential solar panel acceptance program that diverted about 10 tons last year.
Austin Resource Recovery (ARR) briefed the committee on curbside recycling trends, contamination challenges and the department’s residential solar panel recycling program.
Assistant Director Ron Romero summarized curbside recycling history and operations, noting the city’s move to single‑stream cart collection and that ARR partners with Balcones Recycling and Texas Disposal Systems to process residential tonnage. Romero said curbside recycling tonnages peaked in 2022 and 2023 (about 63,000–64,000 tons) and that ARR collected roughly 59,000 tons in fiscal 2024. He said the department attributes earlier peaks in part to COVID‑era household…
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