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Nashville Waste Services to change trash and recycling schedule, citing $1 million in savings
Summary
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 city's material recovery facility, and that staff will hold a workshop with Waste Management leadership this week to advance those talks.
The change will affect the department's roughly 144,000 customers, Purvis said, with about 96,000 households seeing a change to their collection day. To notify customers, the department plans a phased outreach campaign: a live online lookup tool and app update by Jan. 1, mailers and stickers to customers in mid-January, inserts on residential water bills, notices on 220 WeGo fleet vehicles, social media and press outreach, and HUB Nashville support for questions.
Purvis described operational steps the department is taking to implement the schedule change with minimal disruption. Crews have been running routes with some overtime to familiarize themselves with new routes, and every collection vehicle now has routing software with electronic pre- and post-trip capabilities to track set-out rates for trash and recycling carts.
He also provided performance figures since the department stood up July 1: an average service rate of 99.83% for collections, an improvement in missed-pickup turnaround toward a near 24-hour target, 715 new recycling customers added, an upgraded east convenience center, and approximately 5,337 gallons of fuel saved.
The chair asked if committee members had questions; none were offered. The chair adjourned the meeting and reminded attendees that the subcommittee will meet on the second Tuesday of each month. The department said the lookup tool and customer notifications will precede the Feb. 2 schedule change and staff will report updates in future subcommittee meetings.
