NEW GARBAGE AND RECYCLING CONTRACTS AWARDED
CONTRACTS AWARDED
Earlier this spring, Village staff had sought proposals from recycling and garbage providers. The proposals received for both services were evaluated for total costs, including tipping fees (a per ton charge for disposal), travel costs, and recycling rebates. Based on the analysis, Advanced Disposal offered the lowest cost for both services, and this June, the Village Board awarded new, three-year garbage and recycling contracts to the company.
COLLECTION SERVICES
Village crews collect garbage and recycling from 7,348 (as of January 1, 2015) homes in the Village. Collections take place every day of the week. Pleasant Prairie hauls approximately 6,500 tons of garbage and 2,100 tons of recycling to its garbage and recycling provider annually. During 2015, the Village budgeted $290,000 for garbage (solid waste) tipping fees. Tipping fees under the new contract are estimated to be $282,750 (based on collecting 6,500 tons, a similar amount to 2014).
Total annual costs for garbage collection this year are estimated to be $337,268. For recycling, the Village is estimating total annual costs at $40,332.
KEEPING COSTS LOWER
Village residents contribute directly to cost savings for these services. Because the Village pays a much smaller tipping fee for recyclables than garbage and because in the current recycling market we receive a rebate for recycled material (based on its market value at that particular point in time), the more material that is kept out of a landfill, the lower the expenses are for the service.
The top chart on the PDF attached below offers a look at the tons (and percentage) of recycling and garbage collected since automated recycling collection began in 2005 (automated garbage collection began in 2009). The lower chart shows garbage tipping fees and the percentage increase for approximately the same time frame.
WHICH ITEMS TO RECYCLE
The following items can be placed in your recycling bin:
• cardboard, cereal/shoe boxes, unlined merchandise boxes
• magazines, newspapers, catalogs
• flyers, junk mail
• telephone books, paperback books
• untreated office papers (typing, copy, printer paper)
• stationary, envelopes, bills
• brown paper bags
• plastic bottles and containers (marked with recyclable numbers 1 through 7)
• glass containers
• aluminum cans and containers
• steel (tin) cans and containers
Food containers that are recyclable should be rinsed and free of food remnants. Thank you for your help in keeping our community’s garbage and recycling costs lower.
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