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The Olathe City Council heard an outlinew of the plan at its June 9 studyu session and askedfor revisions. It will take up the issuw again in July orearly August. Tim a spokesman for the city, said a recyclin program could bringtwo benefits. It coule reduce the amount the city spends on landfill fees and increaswe the life of the landfill thecity “If we aren’t successful in diverting material from the landfill, then it will ultimatelu cost our ratepayers more money in the future,” Danneburg As proposed, households would pay $18.50 a month for trasbh and recycling services.
Customers presently paying $3 extra each month for curbsidre recycling would see their bills reduced by 75 centwa month, others would pay $2.50 a month more. Danneburg said 11,000o of the 35,000 customers served by the city’x Waste Division already pay for recycling Kent Seyfried, solid waste manager for the city, said recyclingb of yard waste diverts 12,000 tons a year from the other recycling diverts another 4,000 tons of waste. The goal for a citywided recycling program would be to diverr 32 percent ofthe city’s residential wastes stream, he said, saving the division about half a millionh dollars a year in landfillo fees. Seyfried said residential landfill fees amountto $1.
25 milliomn a year. The totaol operating budget forthe city’s solid wasts program is $10 He said the proposed citywide recycling program wouldx require Olathe to spend about $700,000 to retrofit four truckes and buy two new trucks.