Recycling charges, another way counties double dip the tax payer. PTC should change its name to " Money Grab City " .

PTC is fast becoming a joke and the more we read about how the so called " City Council " continues to look to take more and more money of tax payers pockets When will it end > Will PTC simply require its citizens to sign over their paychecks and the county will decide what you need to survive?

See this act before, that country failed. Will we be next?

and they know it... the City stands to gain nothing from mandatory recycling. Bernie and staff were right all along - we should have gone with a single-provider, with a controlled price and mandatory recycling. Now, we're going to end up paying twice as much. Recycling needs to be mandatory to be successful. It's the only way. There are garbage cans out on my street 4 days a week, garbage trucks 4 days a week too. A single provider would have meant 1 day a week, 2 at the most. Much better anyway you look at it.

Cause i forgot the grease.....Looks like it gonna be a DRY ----!!!! You fill in the blank.....PEACE

Requiring liability is nothing new, here or elsewhere.

Since the discussions, last year, two or three providers have already rolled in recycling pick up at the same rate as just trash. One, at least, was doing that prior to the meetings last year.

There is no requiring anyone to recycle or even to get a recycling can.

I opposed the mandated single provider recycling. Still do.

This gives everyone the option to recycle curb side or not, which is a good thing, since many will not haul recycling to a center. It allows competition to set the price, not the City, which is also a good thing.

With at least two companies already providing the services at the same cost of trash alone, other companies will have to do the same thing to compete.

We have no idea how long the company placing the containers at the recycling centers will be able to do so. They made it very clear that a point would be reached they could inventory no more for free, at which point charges would return, or the market for recyclables would come back.

If there is a better way than this dual approach for this I do not know what it would be. It is also a long term set of solutions that is fairly self adapting to any market condition for recycling.

Don Haddix
PTC Councilman
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This is a Power and Money grab by the City plain and simple. Yes recycling is a good thing and everyone should do it, but by their own accord, not by being bullied into it by a {{{EDITED}}} mayor and his bunch cronies. Bernie is just trying to find a way for the citizens pay for the move of the recycling center that the state should have payed for with the money for the property that they took for the widening of 74. God I can't wait for Otis to be replaced.

Obama's weapon of Choice!