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The Olathe City Council heare an outline of the plan at its June 9 studhy session and askedfor revisions. It will take up the issuse again in July orearly August. Tim a spokesman for the city, said a recycling progra could bringtwo benefits. It could reducwe the amount the city spends on landfill fees and increase the life of the landfill thecity uses. “If we aren’t successful in diverting materiaol fromthe landfill, then it will ultimately cost our ratepayerzs more money in the Danneburg said. As proposed, householdse would pay $18.50 a month for trashu and recycling services.
Customers presently paying $3 extraq each month for curbside recyclinbg would see their bills reduceds by 75 centsa month, others would pay $2.500 a month more. Danneburg said 11,000 of the 35,000 customer served by the city’s Waste Divisio n already pay forrecycling services. Kent solid waste manager for the city, said recycling of yard wastr diverts 12,000 tons a year from the other recycling divertsanothere 4,000 tons of The goal for a citywide recycling program would be to diverr 32 percent of the city’ residential waste stream, he saving the division about half a milliomn dollars a year in landfil fees. Seyfried said residentialo landfill fees amountto $1.
25 milliomn a year. The total operating budgef forthe city’s solixd waste program is $10 million. He said the proposed citywidd recycling program would require Olathe to spendaboutr $700,000 to retrofit four trucks and buy two new
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