If you live in Peachtree City, get ready to pay more to get your trash picked up, courtesy of the City Council and Keep Peachtree City Beautiful.

Peachtree City is going to be assessing “franchise fees” on every trash hauler that operates in the city that will be passed along directly to all trash pickup customers in the city.

The City Council unanimously approved adding a quarterly $1 per customer fee, which is expected to raise $40,000 a year in new revenue. That works out to an additional $4 a year that is expected to be passed on to customers’ bills.

The $40,000 a year raised by the fees will be used to fund the Keep Peachtree City Beautiful program, which is involved in recycling and litter education, litter removal and supervision of community service workers who will clean up and remove litter from the city.

Franchise fees are normally imposed on utilities that have a monopoly, but the city is treating the trash haulers on a non-exclusive agreement.

That agreement, approved April 16, requires all trash haulers to offer single stream (no sorting) curbside recycling as part of their base trash pickup prices. Previously some providers charged extra for customers who wanted single stream curbside recycling pickup.

KPTCB officials want to use the funds to increase recycling and litter education, particularly among younger students, because they are the most likely to adopt recycling at home, said KPTCB representative Al Yougel.

The funds will also be used to increase the number of trash receptacles on the path system, currently totaling 38, and also will pay for community beautification projects.

Part of the funds will also pay for recyclables pickup particularly from the parks and athletic fields, which is more labor intensive, Yougel said.