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Enclosure #5 Martinsville A CITY WITHOUT LIMITS DATE: March 5, 2001 TO: Earl B. Reynolds, Jr., City Manager FROM: Leon Towamicki, Director Public Works SUBJECT: Recycling Background For a number of years, the City participated with two local grocery stores, Kroger's and Harris Teeter, in providing a location and shared expenses for the operation of two unmanned drop-off sites for recyclable materials. Each of these sites was provided with three containers; one combination container for aluminurn/bi-metal cans and newspaper, one container for plastics, and one container for glass. The arrangement that existed provided for the stores paying the monthly rental fee for the containers and the City paying the hauling or emptying fee, with the City receiving reimbursement for the value of any of the materials. Several years ago as Kroger's moved from the south side of Commonwealth Boulevard to the present location on the north side of Commonwealth Boulevard, recycling service was terminated in conjunction with Kroger's due to the need for parking at the new location. The site at the Harris-Teeter store on Brookdale Road continued until last spring, when our office was advised by Waste Management in Roanoke that they could no longer provide this service for the City of Martinsville. The drop off containers were removed shortly thereafter and no City sponsored recycling has occurred since that time. Several organizations throughout the community have and continue to collect cans and newspaper. Current Efforts In an effort to resume the service, I have made numerous contacts with Waste Management's office in Madison, NC, and in summary, there does not appear to be a great deal of interest in providing recycling service from the North Carolina direction. In my last conversation with WM on Monday, March 5th, they indicated they have several trailer mounted recycling bins (much smaller than the containers previously used), that are available. The rental fee for these containers will be $50 per month per container and the haul fee to either their Winston-Salem materials recovery facility, or to Roanoke will be in the range .of $265 to $270, per occurrence. The fees previously paid by the City for the drop-off boxes were $90 rental per container per month, and a haul fee of $198 per container. Several days ago, Jeff Joyce and I met with Mr. Johnny Webb of Speedweigh Recycling here in Martinsville (Stultz Road) to see if there were any opportunities to work with a local vendor. Based on our conversation, Speedweigh Recycling is willing to provide the following: 55 West Church Street P.O. Box 1112 Martinsville, VA 24114-1112 540-656-5000 www. ci.martinsville.va.us