The city of
Louisville, Ky., expects to save about $100,000 a year under a new three-year,
$1.4 million recycling contract, according to The Courier-Journal.
Household
recyclables will be picked up by a different company with more high-tech trucks
that can compact items as they go - enabling them to carry bigger loads.
Otherwise, the
pickup schedule, eligible items, procedure and drop- off locations will remain
the same. "From the public's standpoint, nothing has changed," said
Rudy Davidson, director of the city's Department of Solid Waste Management and
Services.
The city has
signed the new contract, with options to renew for two additional years, with
Industrial Disposal, the lowest of three bidders. Industrial will replace
Rumpke of Kentucky in serving the 86,000 eligible households.
The city has been
satisfied with Rumpke's services but wanted the additional savings under the
new contract, Davidson said. "It purely came down to price," Rumpke
said.
Industrial, whose
parent company is Republic Services, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., also has
contracts for trash or recycling pickup or both with some of the area's small
cities, including Middletown, Anchorage and Jeffersontown. Republic came to the
area in 1999 and has since acquired BFI Waste Systems, Industrial Disposal and
some assets from a merger between Waste Management and USA Waste, Hall said.
Industrial is the third company to provide recycling services since the city began its program 10 years ago. Waste Management of Kentucky held the contract from 1990 to '95.
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