Dive Brief:

• Members of the Public Works committee are unanimously against the proposed contract to outsource Harrisburg's trash services.
• The Director of Public Works said the city could save $800,000 to $1 million by privatizing the waste collections for the city.
• ​The committee would like to suspend talks about outworking until the new administration is in position.

Dive Insight:

The current cost to operate the sanitation department costs between $8 million to $9 million annually. Endless questions were raised by the contract the committee was given, without clear answers, which exasperated the chair of the committee. Republic Services submitted a bid which increases prices to almost double the current rate per household. Republic would also keep all profit generated from recycling.