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Agreement for the Processing and Purchase of Recyclable Materials from the Curbside Collection Recycling Program (B)
This item is a request for the City Commission to approve a contract with SP Recycling Corporation for the processing of recyclables generated by the City's Solid Waste Residential Curbside Collection program.
Explanation
For the past fifteen years, the City's residential curbside collection contract has required the hauler to take responsibility for the processing and marketing of recyclables generated by the program. Throughout that period, the hauler has always sub-contracted the processing and marketing of recyclables, and the contractor, the sub-contractor, and the City have split the revenues from the recycled materials.
During the final months of the last residential collection contract, City and County staff (who work cooperatively on such matters pursuant to the Interlocal Agreement for Solid Waste Management between the City and the County) determined that the processing of the community's residential recycling would be best served by the City and County contracting directly with the processor and marketer of the recyclable materials. This decision was made in furtherance of the City and County's desire to retain ownership of the collected recyclable materials and maintain greater control over its final disposition. For that reason, the costs for processing recyclable materials were not included in the new contracts that the City and County entered into this year for their residential collection program.
City and County staff evaluated options for the procurement of a processor for the recyclable materials and determined that the current processor, SP Recycling Corporation, was a sole source for the purchase based on the following circumstances:
1.) SP Recycling is the only vendor within Alachua County able to process all of the materials collected through the City and County's residential collection programs.
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