City adopts new recycling policy

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

City adopts new recycling policy

Contract to go out to bid if Waste Management can't meet demands

BY JOHN DeSANTIS Citizen Staff

Drawing applause and cheers from a crowd of about 60 in the Old City Hall meeting room, Key West city commissioners unanimously accepted a master "trash" plan that includes provisions for hiring a full-time recycling coordinator and creating policies to substantially reduce the amount of garbage that is not composted, recycled or otherwise disposed of in an environmentally friendly manner.

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Yes, The Cities answer to

Submitted on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 11:39am by 666

Yes, The Cities answer to everything is to hire a new full time employee. Remember how they hired a parking Director? He is still pulling in his huge salary and benefits and what has he done? I have the same 5 poorly marked resident spots on my streets always full of cars with out of state plates. How about giving him the job so we don't have to add another $150k to our bloated budget?

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Insanity.

Submitted on Thu, 08/30/2012 - 6:27am by Mac

We spent nearly half a million dollars to be told that Waste Management has been screwing us for 13 years? Hell, we've got city contractors who've been screwing us a lot longer than that.

And where was the mention of bars recycling? Not likely to appear in any legislation.

Worst of all, our dear commissioners want to add a recycling czar to city staff-- at a cost of probably $50-100K per year. Hey, commissioners, we should be cutting city staff, not adding to it.

With Panico bitching that loss of cruise ship income caused our $400K budget shortfall, did we really need to flush $400K down the toilet for this "study"?

Will someone please introduce an ordinance banning any future "studies"?