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Sumner council hears why refuse rates are rising and what residents will pay
Summary
City staff and the refuse contractor explained higher disposal and environmental costs, a newly applied state B&O tax and proposed monthly increases for residential service; council asked about equity, recycling incentives and aid for fixed-income residents.
City staff and a refuse-service presenter told the Sumner City Council at a study session that rising landfill-treatment costs, hauling to out-of-region landfills and a newly applied state business-and-occupation (B&O) tax are driving proposed increases to residential garbage rates.
Unidentified Presenter (speaker 2), the presenter for the refuse contract, said environmentally driven costs such as leachate treatment and methane mitigation have pushed disposal fees higher and that some waste will be hauled east to lower-cost landfills when economically advantageous.…
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