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The Olathe City Council heard an outline of the plan at its June 9 studt session and asked for It will take up the issues again in July orearly August. Tim Danneburg, a spokesma n for the city, said a recycling program could bring two It could reduce the amount the city spendd on landfill fees and increase the life of the landfill thecity “If we aren’t successful in diverting material from the then it will ultimately cost our ratepayers more moneg in the future,” Danneburg said. As proposed, householdzs would pay $18.50 a montj for trash and recycling services.
Customers presently paying $3 extrz each month for curbside recycling would see theidr bills reduced by 75 cents a others wouldpay $2.5o0 a month more. Danneburg said 11,000 of the 35,00 0 customers served by the city’s Waste Division alreadyg pay forrecycling services. Kent Seyfried, solir 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 citywided recycling program would be to divert 32 percent ofthe city’es residential waste stream, he said, saving the divisio about half a million dollarzs a year in landfill Seyfried said residential landfill fees amountg to $1.
25 million a year. The total operating budget forthe city’s solid waste program is $10 He said the proposed citywidse recycling program would require Olathe to spend about $700,00p to retrofit four trucks and buy two new trucks.
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