Pull-up to the recycling center on Curtis Street and the first thing you’ll notice is that nothing has changed, even though operations were taken over by the City of Torrington from Diversified Services Inc. on Jan.1.
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TORRINGTON – Pull-up to the recycling center on Curtis Street and the first thing you’ll notice is that nothing has changed, even though operations were taken over by the City of Torrington from Diversified Services Inc. on Jan.1.
“There’s been no major changes at the center other to charge for pickups,” said COT Streets and Sanitation Supervisor Gary Korell, whose department is responsible for the recycling center. “There’s still no charge for material that is dropped off, but we need to try to recover some of our cost on pickups.”
However, the center hasn’t started pickups yet, since the city council hasn’t yet approved the proposed rates; $20 for in town pickups of 10 cubic yards with a minimum charge of $15 for five cubic yards or less and $25 for out of town pickups of 10 cubic yards and 55 cents per mile, round trip.
“This won’t recover our costs, but we tried to come up with a number that was palatable to everyone,” Korell said. “The last thing we want to do is discourage recycling and I wanted the city council to go into this with their eyes wide open and understand we weren’t going to cover our costs.”
Even with little chance for the recycling program to make any money, Korell believes taking it over was the right thing to do.