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MEMORANDUM
Date: July 18, 2022
To: Mayor and City Councilmembers
Thru: Kelly DiMartino, City Manager
Tyler Marr, Interim Deputy City Manager
Jacqueline Kozak-Thiel, Chief Sustainability Officer
Lindsay Ex, Director, Environmental Sustainability
From: Caroline Mitchell, Manager, Environmental Sustainability
Sylvia Tatman-Burruss, Project Manager
Re: Trash Contracting - Supplemental Information Read Before Memo 7/19/22
The purpose of this memo is to answer a question regarding potential contracted residential trash
and recycling collection. A community member sent Councilmember Peel an email with comments
about the potential contracted system, including the following statement:
Any company that gets the contract will have to deploy more trucks to handle the increased
volume for the entire area or make several trips to empty the truck.
Councilmember Peel then asked staff to reply to the following related question:
City staff can we research and produce a memo regarding the amount of trucks that will be
needed to service a street and/or the trips made to empty trucks?
Bottom Line
In a contracted system, there would be fewer trucks on residential streets than in the open market
collection system, even when accounting for the contracted hauler purchasing more trucks and the
trucks needing to stop mid-route to empty before returning to finish the route.
Details
Number of trucks needed to service a street
Under a Contracted system, each residential street would be serviced by either two or three trucks
per week (due to weekly trash and yard trimmings collection and every other week recycling
collection) rather than two to three trucks per company (which can be up to eight to 12 trucks per
week if all four existing residential haulers were servicing that street). If the City were to shift to
weekly recycling collection, there would be three trucks every week.
Number of trips to empty trucks
In a contracted system,
through a neighborhood only once. When that truck reaches capacity, it stops its route, drives to
unload at the landfill or recycling center, and then returns to continue its route. In most cases, the
truck leaves to empty once mid-route and then empties again at the end of the day.