Arkansas City commissioners met with Winfield City Manager Taggart Wall during a study session Friday to discuss possible options for the recycling program. Both communities share the cost of the program, but expenses have been increasing each year due to the lack of a market for recycled material.
Currently the unsorted and often contaminated items are being hauled to Waste Connection in Wichita, where 60 percent of those materials end up in the landfill. Wall said the employees at that center do not separate the clean recyclables from the contaminated materials, and will just send them to the landfill.
(Read more: The Arkansas City Traveler)