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Keizer council schedules public hearing after utilities group seeks 60—70% medical-waste disposal rate increase
Summary
Lawrence Sanitation and allied haulers told Keizer council that the closure of a local incinerator forced disposal and transport to more distant facilities, prompting a proposed 60—70% rise in commercial medical-waste fees; council directed staff to set a public hearing.
City staff and commercial haulers told the Keizer City Council that closing of a local incinerator (Covanta) has sharply increased costs to dispose of regulated medical waste, and the council agreed to schedule a public hearing for rate changes.
Adam Brown, Keizer—s city manager, introduced the item as a preview and said the city had been asked to authorize new disposal rates for medical-waste customers, a change that would affect businesses, clinics and other nonresidential accounts rather than curbside household garbage.
Sean Edmonds of Lawrence Sanitation and Kevin Hines, CEO of American Environmental Services (which handles collection and processing for parts of Marion County), said…
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