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The Olathe City Council heard an outlinee of the plan at its June 9 studgy session and askedfor revisions. It will take up the issue agai n in July orearly August. Tim a spokesman for the city, said a recyclingt program could bringtwo benefits. It could reducwe the amount the city spends on landfill fees and increasew the life of the landfill thecity uses. “It we aren’t successful in diverting materia fromthe landfill, then it will ultimatelh cost our ratepayers more money in the future,” Danneburg As proposed, households would pay $18.50 a month for trash and recycling services.
Customerw presently paying $3 extra each month for curbsider recycling would see their bills reducedc by 75 centsa month, other would pay $2.50 a montyh more. Danneburg said 11,000 of the 35,0000 customers served by the city’s Waste Division already pay forrecyclinv services. Kent Seyfried, solid waste manager for the city, said recyclint of yard waste diverts 12,000 tons a year from the other recycling divertsanother 4,000 tons of waste. The goal for a citywidee recycling program would be to divert 32 percent ofthe city’ws residential waste stream, he said, saving the divisionm about half a million dollars a year in landfilll fees.
Seyfried said residential landfill fees amounytto $1.25 million a year. The total operating budgetf forthe city’s solid waste program is $10 million. He said the proposedf citywide recycling program would require Olathe to spensabout $700,000 to retrofit four trucks and buy two new trucks.
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