The City of Monmouth will see some changes coming to its recycling services.
The City Council on Monday approved a five-year extension of the contract with Eagle Enterprises for recycling but with a few changes.
For starters, recycling is changing from five days a week to four, following in the footsteps of Lakeshore Recycling, the city’s garbage collector, who switched to a four-day-a-week schedule when they took over garbage pickup.
This change led to confusion regarding recycling collection for citizens and led the city to pursue changes to the recycling collection.
City Administrator Lew Steinbrecher tells WGIL that the city and Eagle worked out a plan to switch to a four-day schedule, following Lakeshore’s move.
“The same routes that Lakeshore had implemented,” Steinbrecher said in a Tuesday interview. “There were some slight changes in daily routes. They said they could do it but they’d require a larger truck than what have.”
The acquisition of a new truck would lead to some modest cost increases year over year. Steinbrecher says that there will be a four percent annual rate increase over the five-year period.