What is the estimated cost per ton for existing recycling programs?
WERS considers this information to be proprietary in nature and respectfully declined to provide the information to the County. South Tahoe Refuse, Inc. provided the following estimated costs per ton for processing recyclable materials. These estimates include MRF processing costs only. They do not include the costs of collection, transport to market or scrap or California Redemption Value revenues. The estimates were developed in 1998 through a cost accounting program and should be considered in light of inflationary costs since that time. Aluminum Glass Plastic Tin Cardboard Newspaper Mixed Paper Wood/Vegetation Inerts Steel Tires $226.10 $125.10 $233.38 $221.63 $125.10 $125.10 $125.10 $108.00 $102.00 $100.00 $180.
WERS considers this information to be proprietary in nature and respectfully declined to provide the information to the County. South Tahoe Refuse, Inc. provided the following estimated costs per ton for processing recyclable materials. These estimates include MRF processing costs only. They do not include the costs of collection, transport to market or scrap or California Redemption Value revenues. The estimates were developed in 1998 through a cost accounting program and should be considered in light of inflationary costs since that time.
