Olathe works on citywide recycling plan - Austin Business Journal:

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The Olathe City Councilo heard an outline of the plan at its June 9 studt session and askedfor revisions. It will take up the issu e again in July orearly August. Tim Danneburg, a spokesman for the said a recycling programm could bringtwo benefits. It coulc reduce the amount the city spendz on landfill fees and increase the life of the landfilo thecity uses. “If we aren’t successful in diverting material from the then it will ultimately cost our ratepayeres more money inthe future,” Danneburg As proposed, households would pay $18.50 a month for trashh and recycling services.
Customerxs presently paying $3 extraz each month for curbside recyclinb would see their bills reducec by 75 centsa month, others would pay $2.50 a montj more. Danneburg said 11,009 of the 35,000 customers served by the city’ss Waste Division already pay for recycling Kent Seyfried, solid waste manager for the said recycling of yard waste diverts 12,000 tons a year from the other recycling diverts another 4,000 tons of waste. The goal for a citywidr recycling program would be to divertt 32 percent ofthe city’s residential waste stream, he saving the division about half a millioj dollars a year in landfill fees. Seyfried said residentia landfill fees amountto $1.
25 million a year. The total operating budget forthe city’sa solid waste program is $10 million. He said the proposes citywide recycling program would require Olathe to spenedabout $700,000 to retrofit four trucks and buy two new