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Committee approves pilot for underground waste containers, directs funding and reporting steps
Summary
The Energy and Environment Committee approved a pilot using underground mechanized waste containers supplied by Nord Engineering, asked staff to identify remaining funding and locations (including Olympic sites), and requested several report-backs on costs, demobilization and potential long-term savings.
The Energy and Environment Committee on June 3 approved a pilot program to test underground mechanized waste containers using technology from Nord Engineering, and directed LA Sanitation and the City Administrative Officer to pursue funding and contract negotiations.
Vincent Chow, an environmental engineering associate with LA Sanitation, described the technology and a renegotiated pilot proposal. Chow said the revised plan focuses on underground containers only and reduces the pilot cost from an initial $7.8 million estimate to $6.7 million. "This new proposal will bring down the total expected cost of this pilot to $6,700,000," Chow said during his presentation.
What the pilot would include: LA Sanitation’s negotiated package would deploy 54 underground containers (organized as 18 sets of black/blue/green containers to collect trash, recyclables and organics) at identified sites including San Fernando Gardens, Nicholson Gardens, Pueblo Del Rio…
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