City mandates curbside recycling charge

From the Las Cruces Sun-News - LAS CRUCES - You've had a brown one for years, but soon you'll have a blue one, too. That brown 96-gallon container is for trash. Soon it will have a blue-colored "brother" for curbside recycling. The City Council approved an across-the-board $2.59 monthly charge Monday for the approximately 29,000 city solid waste customers. The monthly charge for the new bi-weekly service will begin sometime early next year. But to mirror the fact that not all city solid waste customers are going to participate in curbside recycling, the council's decision to assess the $2.59 monthly charge was not unanimous. Councilor Dolores Connor was the lone dissenting vote on the seven-member council, and said she was representing the perceived minority of residents who do not, and will not, support the program. Read more
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This will be just one more nail in this city council's coffin of incumbency. Throw the bums out next year. I'm disgusted and fed up with their pie in the sky antics.

Anonymous said...

The majority of people in Las Cruces do not support this program. It's absolute nonsense and dishonest to say otherwise. Shame on this council.

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