DuPage County, Ill., is examining six bids for a recycling center in Carol Stream, Ill., as well as additional acreage the county owns.
6 offers for recycle site; not all for trash station
Six companies made offers on the 11-acre parcel, which the county board deemed surplus property. In anticipation of that vote, officials sent out requests for proposal last month.
Four companies offered to purchase the tract and its 40,000- square-foot facility. Two others offered to rent it.
Companies that have made proposals for the facility and the land are: Zipp Rich Contractors; Resource Management; Waste Management, the present operator of the facility; McCormick LLC; Ridge Realty Group; and Flood Brothers.
According to the (Chicago) Daily Herald, Flood Brothers earlier announced that it would put a transfer station at the facility location. Flood Brothers initially offered to pay $3.4 million for the property, but the county rejected the offer last month amid resident protests. The company, which already owns 11 acres next to the recycling facility, submitted a new proposal in time for the unsealing.
According to Kevin Dixon, director of DuPage County’s Solid Waste Department, the said that the county will be looking at the various proposals and could make a decision by the end of this month.
While the facility is presently running, the equipment and operations have been set up as a dual stream system. A more cost-efficient system would be the single-stream approach, a collection and processing system that has become more common.
Waste Management, which will continue to operate the facility through the rest of this year as part of a contract, has a number of other recycling centers in the area that could take in the material if a recycling-related company would not be the winning bid for the facility.