The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council gave approval for the city’s director of environmental management to enter into a five-year contract with Deffenbaugh Recycling Services.
The contract calls for Deffenbaugh Recycling to handle the collection and marketing of recyclables from the city’s curbside collection program. The contract will start May 1.
Roughly 140,000 households will be involved in the collection program. Along with the five-year contract, the City Council authorized the Environmental Management department to exercise five one-year renewals of the contract, bringing the total potential length of the contract to ten years.
The City Council also authorized the expenditure of no more than $1,673,915 for the first year of the collection program.
Latest from Recycling Today
- Nucor names new president
- DOE rare earths funding is open to recyclers
- Design for Recycling Resolution introduced
- PetStar PET recycling plant expands
- Iron Bull addresses scrap handling needs with custom hoppers
- REgroup, CP Group to build advanced MRF in Nova Scotia
- Oregon county expands options for hard-to-recycling items
- Flexible plastic packaging initiative launches in Canada
