Dive summary:
- City council members in Oak Ridge, Tenn. are considering getting rid of the city's Recyclebank program to save almost $124,000 a year.
- Recyclebank allows residents to collect points by recycling and then cash in those points for discounts, gift cards, magazine subscriptions and other rewards.
- Waste Connections, the city’s waste hauler, is billed 84 cents a month for every household in the Recyclebank program; they then pass that fee onto the city.
From the article:
By leaving Recyclebank, the city of about 30,0000 would save almost $124,000 a year, according to a memo from the city's public works director.
The city's recycling hauler, Waste Connections, is billed 84 cents a month for each of the city's 12,300 households for the Recyclebank program; Waste Connections then passes that cost on to the city, the newspaper reported. ...