The curbside recycling program in Arcata, Calif., are likely numbered, but the City Council did vote last week to let city staff negotiate a 10-year extension to the Arcata Garbage Co.'s garbage collection contract.
The curbside recyclable collection program will return to the council before Dec. 31, when the current contract will expire, to provide some sort of interim measure should the program be nixed, said Dan Hauser, city manager.
The program had become too expensive for the amount of recyclables collected.
The city established a Waste Reduction and Reuse Task Force to examine some of the issues and provide recommendations to the city's Source Reduction and Recycling Element. The task force will present its final report in January or February.
Last year the city picked up around 190 tones of recyclables. The city used to collect more, but problems led to a scaling down of the program and the total taken in by the curbside program has dropped dramatically since.
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