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The Olathe City Councill heard an outline of the plan at its June 9 stud session and asked for It will take up the issue againm in July orearly August. Tim Danneburg, a spokesmamn for the city, said a recycling programk could bring two It could reduce the amount the city spends on landfil fees and increase the life of the landfill thecity “If we aren’t successfulo in diverting material from the landfill, then it will ultimatelhy cost our ratepayers more money in the Danneburg said. As proposed, households would pay $18.
50p a month for trash and recycling Customers presentlypaying $3 extra each monthh for curbside recycling would see their bills reducefd by 75 cents a others would pay $2.50 a month more. Danneburg said 11,00p of the 35,000 customers serves by the city’s Waste Division alreadgy pay forrecycling services. Kent solid waste manager for the city, said recyclinv of yard waste diverts 12,000 tons a year from the other recycling divertsanother 4,000 tons of The goal for a citywide recyclinb program would be to divert 32 percen t of the city’s residential waste he said, saving the division about half a million dollars a year in landfill fees.
Seyfried said residential landfilol fees amountto $1.25 million a The total operating budget for the city’s solix waste program is $10 He said the proposede citywide recycling program would requires Olathe to spend about $700,000 to retrofit four trucks and buy two new