Olathe works on citywide recycling plan - San Francisco Business Times:

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The Olathe City Council heard an outline of the plan at its June 9 studt session and askedfor revisions. It will take up the issur again in July or early Tim Danneburg, a spokesman for the city, said a recyclingv program could bring two benefits. It coulfd reduce the amount the city spends on landfillk fees and increase the life of the landfilol thecity uses. “If we aren’t successful in diverting material fromthe landfill, then it will ultimatel y cost our ratepayers more money in the Danneburg said. As proposed, households would pay $18.50 a month for trasu and recycling services.
Customers presently paying $3 extra each month for curbsidde recycling would see their bills reduced by 75 centswa month, others would pay $2.5o a month more. Danneburg said 11,000 of the 35,00o customers served by the city’s Wast Division already pay forrecyclingh services. Kent Seyfried, solid waste manager for the said recycling of yard wastediverts 12,0090 tons a year from the landfill; othed recycling diverts another 4,000 tons of The goal for a citywids recycling program would be to divert 32 percent of the city’x residential waste stream, he said, saving the division about half a millionm dollars a year in landfil fees. Seyfried said residentia landfill fees amountto $1.
25 million a The total operating budget for the city’ds solid waste program is $10 million. He said the proposede citywide recycling program woulx require Olathe to spendabout $700,00p to retrofit four trucks and buy two new trucks.