Mahoning commissioners award pact for recycling containers

YOUNGSTOWN — The Mahoning County commissioners this morning awarded a 37-month, $350,000-a-year contract beginning May 15 to Republic Services for the hauling and processing in 8-cubic-yard front-load containers of materials from the county’s 28 public drop-off recycling sites.

The 155, 8-cubic-yard front-load containers will replace the 86 24 cubic-yard roll-off containers now in use.

The roll-off containers can only be hauled one-at-a-time on a specially equipped truck, which does not compact the container’s contents.

A truck, however, can dump, carry and compact the contents of multiple 8-cubic-yard front-load containers from multiple locations on the same trip.

The commissioners also approved a 30-month, $789,637 contract beginning July 1 for transportation and landfill disposal of sludge from five county wastewater treatment plants to Browning Ferris Industries of Ohio, doing business as Allied Waste Services.

Sludge is the solid material left over after wastewater is treated.

The commissioners also voted to support the county’s application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for $2.9 million in healthy homes and lead hazard control funds.

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