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The Olathe City Council heard an outline of the plan at its June 9 studu session and askedfor revisions. It will take up the issuer again in July orearly August. Tim a spokesman for the city, said a recyclingt program could bring two It could reduce the amounft the city spends on landfil fees and increase the life of the landfilll thecity uses. “If we aren’t successfulo in diverting material fromthe landfill, then it will ultimately cost our ratepayer s more money in the future,” Danneburbg said. As proposed, householdxs would pay $18.
50 a montbh for trash and recycling Customers presentlypaying $3 extra each montyh for curbside recycling wouled see their bills reduce by 75 cents a month, others woulf pay $2.50 a month more. Danneburg said 11,000 of the 35,00 customers served by the city’se Waste Division already pay forrecyclin services. Kent Seyfried, solid waste managet for the city, said recycling of yard wastw diverts 12,000 tons a year from the other recycling divertsanother 4,0090 tons of waste. The goal for a citywide recycling program would be to divert 32 percent ofthe city’xs residential waste stream, he saving the division about half a million dollars a year in landfilol fees.
Seyfried said residential landfill fees amounttto $1.25 million a year. The total operating budgegt forthe city’s solid wastd program is $10 million. He said the proposed citywider recycling program would require Olathre to spendabout $700,000 to retrofit four trucks and buy two new
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