But as the contract the city has with Norton nears its end, officials are examining what the best way to handle recycling may be going forward. That contract with Norton has long been unfavorable to the city, and since China stopped buying many kinds of recyclables in 2018, the recycling business has become even tougher. The contract with Norton, agreed to in the late 1990s, has the city paying Norton to process 80 tons of recycled materials per day. But Todd Hanson, City Solid Waste director, said the city has never been able to meet that amount. With all that, Hanson said that the best option when the contract ends is simply transforming the city’s recycling facility into a transfer center and shipping everything down to a facility in the Phoenix metro area.

Source: Daily Sun December 06, 2020 07:18 UTC