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Yard waste now goes to the Papillion Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant to be made into the Oma-Gro compost product.But the road to composting hasn’t been easy either. Jim Theiler, the assistant director of Public Works, said the site suspended deliveries after the June 16 storms destroyed the building where composting was done.The facility began accepting yard waste again after July 4 as composting operations were moved to temporary facilities at the site. Residents still are being asked to go elsewhere to purchase their compost.Lisa Disbrow, a Waste Management spokeswoman, said separate yard waste pickup occurred during this time, but the trucks were diverted to the landfill.The company has added 20 new routes to handle the citywide collection of yard waste.Waste Management staff also has grown from 70 drivers at this time last year to 90 today, Theiler said. But recruiting and retaining employees for the collection routes continues to be a challenge, despite paid training, signing bonuses and other incentives, he said.The shortage of available hires with commercial driver’s licenses is a nationwide problem, Disbrow said.“There’s more people retiring than there are folks coming in that field,” she said. “Our company and other companies, we’re all competing very competitively for these drivers.”The company’s contract with the city expires in 2020. Stothert has said she’d prefer that the city’s next contract allow co-collection of yard waste and trash because it could cut costs. City officials have said they expect the new contract to be more expensive than the current one.#ndn-video-player-3.ndn_embedded .ndn_floatContainer { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }... (Omaha World-Herald)
Castle Ridge and Southern Oaks now have a recycling rate of 20.8 percent.The city’s contract with Papillion Sanitation expires in April 2018. The council’s vote on Monday will allow the city to solicit bids based on the new system.The pilot program was prompted by the recent closure of the Sarpy County landfill. There was concern in Bellevue that increased costs for transporting trash to a more distant landfill could lead to the city losing control over spending on solid waste.In a memo explaining the need to City Council members, City Administrator Joe Mangiamelli said the one-size-fits-all contract no longer serves the community as well as it did at its inception. He said there’s a greater desire in the community to determine the level of services and pricing preferred. Until bids come back, it's unclear what expanding the service would cost residents or the city.Before the vote, City Councilman Pat Shannon said he had been afraid that the new model would turn Bellevue residents into “sorting robots.” He said he realizes that’s not what the program does.#ndn-video-player-3.ndn_embedded .ndn_floatContainer { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }... (Omaha World-Herald)
He said he expects the transition to end by June 5, and that by then all yard waste should be headed to the Papillion Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant to be processed as compost.Stubbe said city officials want to avoid days-long delays such as what the city saw in 2015, when complaints spiked.“Our goal is to make sure, when residents put out their material at the beginning of the day, that it’s collected by the end of the day,” he said.Meanwhile the city’s contract with Waste Management expires in 2020.Stothert has said she doesn’t want the new contract to require that yard waste be picked up separately. Instead, she wants to see the yard waste go with trash to Douglas County’s Pheasant Point Landfill, where it would be used to generate electricity through methane gas production.Stothert hasn’t announced any decision on that, but some council members and constituents have raised objections to the proposal.#ndn-video-player-3.ndn_embedded .ndn_floatContainer { margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; }... (Omaha World-Herald)
