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Plainview solid-waste leader details recycling gains, staffing shortfalls and new equipment
Summary
Brock Lively updated the Plainview City Council on expansions to recycling and collection programs, rising landfill tonnage, equipment upgrades and ongoing staffing and contamination challenges.
Brock Lively, Solid Waste Department director, told the Plainview City Council that the department expanded recycling and collection services over the past year but continues to face staffing shortages and contamination in the recycling stream.
Lively said the city now collects 2,410 residential “brown boxes” weekly, operates two commercial collection routes and has 370 blue recycling boxes in town, plus about 70 public-access dumpsters in parks and schools. He told council the department received 100 additional blue dumpsters that were deployed Feb. 5, 2025, and that staff added about 15 new commercial stops this year.
The city’s landfill received about 33,460 tons of municipal solid waste and 7,512 tons of construction-and-demolition debris last year, Lively said. A landfill survey…
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