One Butler County community has already stopped its recycling program. Another is weighing its options.
Less than two months after El Dorado end- ed its recycling program citing rising market costs, Augusta officials are deep in discus- sion about what to do with their current automated curbside program. The Augusta city council hosted a work session Monday to deliberate the issue.
Augusta launched single-stream recycling in 2015, making it so citizens did not have to sort recycling, according to Monday’s meet- ing packet. The city contracted with Waste Connections in Wichita to accept and process its recycling. That contract is set to expire August 31, 2020, according to the original agreement documents attached to the pack- et. City officials have already reached out to renew the contract, but Waste Connections declined.
(Read more: Augusta Gazette)