Georgetown City Council approved Aug. 14 a five-year solid waste and recycling contract with Texas Disposal Systems. The new contract will go into effect Oct. 1 and will add a single-stream recycling program to the city's services.
"[They] negotiated with us to get a very qualified cost of those services annually over the five years, and our customers will not see a change in provider for these services," Assistant City Manager Jim Briggs said. "We've heard from the customers, and the customers like the service that they are getting from the provider. I am happy to be able to express to those customers and to you that we have been able to negotiate a fair price and a fair level of service going forward for the next five years."
The new services will cause an increase in customer rates; however, City Council will adopt those new rates at a future meeting, said Kathy Ragsdale, city environmental and conservation services director.
As part of the single-stream recycling services, customers will now be able to recycle cardboard, plastic bags and plastics 1–7. In addition, the current 18-gallon bins will be replaced with 96-gallon wheeled carts. Curbside pickup of solid waste will continue on a weekly schedule, and single-stream recycling will be collected every other week.
