Houton, Texas is the fourth largest city in the United States. So obvously, the city needs a recycling program to lessen the impact of pollution and the stress on landfills. However, Houston's recycling program is in danger of vanishing because the city has not negotiated successfully with the only company available to handle the task.
Costs of recycling have gone up across the nation, so Waste Management wants a raise to do the same work. Waste Management, the company that has handled Houston's recycling in the past, offered city officials a two-year contract for $10 million and has declined to accept a poorer deal. Please join me in asking Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to accept that recycling costs have gone up and to rehire Waste Management to continue recycling the city's waste as proposed for $10 million on a two-year contract.
Dear Mayor Turner:
Recycling is important. It reduces the pollution associated with producing new materials, especially glass. It also reduces the size and scope of landfills which, in some regions, are already full to bursting. So I was surprised and not pleased to learn that you have not come to terms with Waste Management to continue the recycling program in Houston. For a variety of reasons, the costs of recycling have risen lately. Waste Management is not being unreasonable in asking for an increase in the fees they were charging to do this work. Please keep recycling going in Houston by rehiring Waste Management to continue recycling the city's waste as proposed for $10 million on a two-year contract.
