Dive Brief:

• Oakland, CA is pushing the city council to approve a new waste contract for the city and is recommending that the contract be awarded to Waste Management. 
• The contract, if approved, could potentially raise residential waste collection fees by up to 50%, CBS San Francisco Bay Area reports.
• Officials paid $1 million in consultation costs and took three years to secure bids for the waste collection, yet only received proposals from two haulers, Waste Management and California Waste Solutions, who is now claiming that they were unfairly excluded despite a lower bid. 

Dive Insight:

The City Council has 30 days to reach a decision regarding the hauler contract. The new agreement would begin in July 2015.