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Community Waste Disposal reviews service to Wylie, announces MRF upgrade and new trucks
Summary
Community Waste Disposal briefed council on service operations since 2008, use of CNG trucks, residential recycling (~5,200 tons/year), and a planned materials-recovery-facility upgrade budgeted at about $10to15 million to increase processing capacity; CWD also said it will deploy seven new ASL trucks in April.
Community Waste Disposal (CWD) presented its annual service review to the Wylie City Council during the Feb. 24 work session and described operations, recycling volumes and equipment upgrades.
Robert Medikovich, representing CWD, said the company has serviced Wylie since 2008 and that the fleet includes compressed natural gas (CNG) trucks, which CWD highlighted for air-quality and noise benefits. Medikovich said residential recycling for the contract area totals roughly 5,200 tons per year and that the company provides recycling services to Wylie ISD campuses (about 55 tons annually as described in the presentation). He said CWD runs roughly seven CNG trucks daily on the Wylie routes and that the company will add seven new ASL trucks in April, including one dedicated to the city.
Medikovich described curbside and bulk programs, household-hazardous-waste events, and customer-service metrics; he said the company had about 1,400 inquiries last year and cited 36 reported driver incidents. He also announced a planned materials-recovery facility upgrade with an estimated budget of $10to15 million and said the upgrade would increase throughput from roughly 10to12 tons to 23to25 tons per year as presented on the slides.
Council members thanked CWD for sponsorships and local partnerships, asked that the company promote its resident-facing app and technical tools that help isolate incident records, and invited CWD to a future ribbon-cutting for the new truck(s) and the MRF facility when completed. No council action was required at the work session.
