The city of Columbia will resume curbside recycling collection every other week beginning Feb. 1. Also on Feb. 1, the city will initiate its Pay As You Throw trash collection program, which charges residents for extra refuse bags after they exceed their annual allotment. Residents in single-family homes will continue to be charged $17.37 per month for trash collection and will receive vouchers for a year’s set of bags.
But if they use more than the 104 refuse bags and 54 recycling bags provided by the city, they will be charged $10 for a roll of five bags or $2 per bag. All bags placed curbside for residential trash collection must be in the city-issued bags with a logo or they will not be collected, according to a news release from Steve Hunt, manager of the city’s Solid Waste Utility.
A contactless drive-through process has been set up this week to let residents exchange their vouchers for bags without going into a store or the Daniel Boone City Building.
