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Nashville Waste Services to change trash and recycling schedule, citing $1 million in savings
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Nashville Waste Services announced a new trash and recycling collection schedule that will take effect Feb. 2; officials said the shift and insourced routing are expected to save at least $1,000,000 next year and will affect about 96,000 of the utility's 144,000 customers.
Nashville Waste Services announced a new trash and recycling collection schedule that will take effect Feb. 2, and Matt Purvis, the council liaison for Nashville Waste Services, said the change and related routing adjustments are expected to save at least $1,000,000 next year.
"Doing this is gonna save us at minimum next year $1,000,000," Purvis said, describing savings from insourcing routing and reduced fuel costs. He told the Solid Waste subcommittee that the department is already negotiating with Waste Management, the owner of the…
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