Jacksonville councilmember says city should consider giving credit after recycling services stopped

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Jacksonville City Council subordinate is looking into a program to wage backmost residents for trash that wasn’t picked up.

This comes aft Mayor Lenny Curry suspended recycling services starting past week to assistance support up with trash work backups city-wide.

City Councilman Matt Carlucci wants to cognize if the metropolis tin spend to wage backmost residents who person been expecting their trash and gait discarded to beryllium picked up but owed to the nationalist staffing shortage, galore person been near with unmoved trash for weeks.

“There should beryllium immoderate information for that. Give them credit. I don’t deliberation determination should beryllium a refund, I’m not definite what we do. I volition research each options but I’ve got to hold until the adjacent fund twelvemonth to bash that,” Carlucci said.

Carlucci says his archetypal measurement is to attack the region auditor’s bureau to spot if this is economically feasible but helium points retired helium whitethorn not person a batch of enactment astatine metropolis hallway for his propulsion to wage backmost taxpayers.

“It’s conscionable what I think,” helium said. “The politician doesn’t hold with it. A bully fig of my colleagues connected concern don’t hold with it. I deliberation it’s conscionable of specified magnitude determination should beryllium immoderate information for deficiency of services.”

The garbage interest for 1 twelvemonth successful Jacksonville is $152.

The metropolis said it is not making immoderate nett disconnected of recycling. In fact, it is costing the metropolis to bash it.

“There volition beryllium nary refunds of the fees. So, you wage $152 a year, $12.67 a month, divided into 4 antithetic services. So, if we broke that down it’ll astir apt beryllium $1, $2. That’s not worthy the insubstantial that we’re going to people it on, and that’s astir apt what is going to be,” said Will Williams, Chief of the Jacksonville Solid Waste Division.

The trash contented has gone beyond the curbs of peoples’ homes.

Last week News4Jax told you astir 14-drop-off locations the metropolis acceptable up for recyclables had go overflowing with non-recyclable trash. The metropolis was scrambling to hole that issue.

News4Jax reached retired to the mayor’s bureau to spot if they person a effect to what Councilman Carlucci is proposing, but truthful acold we person not heard back.