By battlefordsNOW

North Battleford saving $50,000 in recycling contract

Oct 13, 2017 | 12:30 PM

The City of North Battleford saved more than $50,000 after renewing its residential recycling collection program.

By signing up with Loraas Environmental Services, the firm offered a lower rate to North Battleford for its recycling collection.

“It’s great, it’s always good to be able to negotiate and find savings throughout the year,” city manager Jim Puffalt said. “We try and do that all the time. Lots of times we can’t, but this was a good opportunity. We’re glad we’re able to partner with Loraas to make that happen.”

The city’s current rate for recycling is $2.91 per cart per month for collection, as well as $87 per metric tonne for processing the recycling material. It’s estimated the city has about 4,973 blue household recycling carts. Loraas said if the city extends the recycling contract to 2019 and signs on for garbage collection as well, the recycling rate could reduce to $2.04 per cart per month starting Nov. 1. 

“They [Loraas] bid on the waste collection and their bid was the lowest – less than we are actually paying for the recycling collection,” Puffalt said. “We had some negotiations with them, and they have agreed to reduce our recycling collection to the same fee based upon us extending the contract.”

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With the new lower recycling rate, the total collection program per household for recycling and waste collection will be $4.08 per month. 

The full savings amounts to $51,928.56 for a one-year period.

angela.brown@jpbg.ca

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