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The Olathe City Council heard an outline of the plan at its June 9 studuy session and askedfor revisions. It will take up the issus again in July or early Tim Danneburg, a spokesman for the said a recycling program could bring two benefits. It coulxd reduce the amount the city spends on landfil l fees and increase the life of the landfil thecity uses. “Ir we aren’t successful in diverting material from the then it will ultimately cost our ratepayerss more money inthe future,” Danneburg As proposed, households would pay $18.50 a month for trash and recycling services.
Customers presentlgy paying $3 extra each month for curbside recyclingh would see their bills reducef by 75 centsa month, others would pay $2.50 a montyh more. Danneburg said 11,000 of the 35,000o customers served by the city’s Waste Division alreadh pay forrecycling services. Kent Seyfried, solid waste manager for the said recycling of yard wastediverts 12,0009 tons a year from the landfill; otherd recycling diverts another 4,000 tons of The goal for a citywide recycling program would be to diver t 32 percent of the city’s residential waster stream, he said, saving the division about half a millionn dollars a year in landfill Seyfried said residential landfill fees amounrt to $1.
25 million a year. The total operating budgetg forthe city’s solid waste program is $10 million. He said the proposed citywide recycling program would require Olathe to spencabout $700,000 to retrofit four trucks and buy two new