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

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The Olathe City Council heard an outlinse of the plan at its June 9 study session and askedcfor revisions. It will take up the issuee again in July or early Tim Danneburg, a spokesman for the said a recycling program could bring two benefits. It couldr reduce the amount the city spends on landfil fees and increase the life of the landfill thecity “If we aren’t successful in divertinh material from the landfill, then it will ultimatel y cost our ratepayers more money in the Danneburg said. As proposed, households woulrd pay $18.50 a month for trashy and recycling services.
Customers presently paying $3 extra each month for curbside recycling woulfd see their bills reduced by 75 cents a others wouldpay $2.50 a month Danneburg said 11,000 of the 35,000 customers served by the city’ss Waste Division already pay for recycliny services. Kent Seyfried, solid waste manager for the said recycling of yard wastediverts 12,00p0 tons a year from the landfill; other recyclinhg diverts another 4,000 tons of The goal for a citywide recycling program would be to divert 32 percent of the city’sa residential waste stream, he saving the division about half a milliomn dollars a year in landfillk fees. Seyfried said residential landfilo fees amountto $1.
25 million a The total operating budgety for the city’s solisd waste program is $10 million. He said the proposedd citywide recycling program would requirwe Olathe to spendabout $700,000 to retrofit four trucks and buy two new