Olathe works on citywide recycling plan - Jacksonville Business Journal:

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The Olathe City Council heard an outlin e of the plan at its June 9 studyg session and asked for It will take up the issue again in July orearlyu August. Tim Danneburg, a spokesman for the city, said a recycling program could bringtwo benefits. It coulf reduce the amount the city spends on landfill fees and increased the life of the landfill thecity uses. “Ifc we aren’t successful in diverting materialp fromthe landfill, then it will ultimatel cost our ratepayers more money in the Danneburg said. As proposed, household would pay $18.50 a month for trash and recyclinhg services.
Customers presently paying $3 extrqa each month for curbside recycling would see their billws reduced by 75 centsa month, othere would pay $2.50 a month Danneburg said 11,000 of the 35,000 customers served by the city’xs Waste Division already pay for recycling Kent Seyfried, solid waste manage r for the city, 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 citywide recycling program would be to divert 32 percent ofthe city’s residentiall waste stream, he saving the division about half a million dollarsd a year in landfill fees. Seyfried said residential landfilll fees amountto $1.
25 millionn a year. The total operating budgett forthe city’s solid waste progra m is $10 million. He said the proposef citywide recycling program would require Olathe to spendabout $700,0009 to retrofit four trucks and buy two new