After
serving only select neighborhoods for more than a decade, Tampa will take its
recycling program citywide beginning this fall.
Recycling
Manager Barbara Heineken said the city will expand the curbside pickup in three
phases.
About
20,000 to 25,000 households will be added to the recycling program in the first
phase, but Heineken said the routes haven't been chosen.
Another
several thousand customers will be added in October. The final phase starts in
December, she said.
Tampa
homeowners pay $19 a month for garbage collection, regardless of whether they
have curbside recycling service. Only 26,000 of the city's 80,000 households
have curbside service.
Heineken
said the city will spend about $1.2 million on 10 new trucks and 80,000 blue
recycling bins. The Solid Waste Department will hire about a dozen new
employees. Presently the city delivers the collected material to a Waste
Management facility.
Heineken
estimates that once the curbside collection program is available throughout the
city there will be between 700-750 tons of recyclables collected a month.
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