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Environmental Services Commission endorses objectives for upcoming solid-waste contract, urges retention of weekly collection
Summary
The commission unanimously concurred with staff objectives guiding Bellevue’s next solid-waste services RFP, including maintaining weekly collection and the existing embedded rate (pay-as-you-throw) structure; staff said the current contract runs through June 30, 2028 and the city pays about $37 million a year for services.
The Environmental Services Commission on March 5 unanimously endorsed staff-recommended objectives for Bellevue’s next solid-waste services procurement, including a staff request to keep weekly curbside collection and the city’s embedded pay-as-you-throw rate model.
Utilities staff presented a high-level background of Bellevue’s current contract, noting it began in 2014, was extended in 2021 and is slated to expire June 30, 2028. Staff said the community collectively pays about $37,000,000 a year for garbage, recycling and composting services, and that costs for transfer and disposal provided by King County are passed through in the contract and account for roughly a third of that total.
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