Dive Brief:

• Council members in Red Bank, New Jersey are taking steps toward privatizing the town's solid waste collection.
• Officials are expecting to reach a final decision about outsourcing residential trash and recycling services before its 2014 municipal budget is adopted.
• The city is expecting to accept bids from private waste companies to gauge if savings are substantial enough to outsource services.

Dive Insight:

The chairman of the public works committee said that the savings would have to be significant enough to pass on to taxpayers. Many towns and cities have privatized trash collections, and it appears that costs have dropped after private haulers were contracted.