Dive Summary:
- Workers in Tulsa, Oklahoma have been collecting organics from curbside routes, but have brought the waste to Covanta Energy's waste-to-energy facility instead of the city's mulching site, causing an uproar amongst local residents, who would like a refund.
- The chairman of the Tulsa trash board is against refunding customers "green" collection fees for yard waste services that were performed.
- The city charges 50 cents per bag of yard waste, though it is unclear about the amount each resident has actually paid for this service due to variances in the volume of clippings collected from each residence.
From the article:
An average $1.09 a month in each customer's bill still goes toward yard waste service.
...about $1.27 million in regular trash payments has gone toward green waste, counting the city's 116,500 trash customers.
Former Mayor Kathy Taylor has also chimed in, asking the trash board to suspend the green waste and recycling fees in light of an apparent "failure of transparency."
