San Antonio signed a $113.6M contract with Balcones Recycling to send empty milk jugs, newspapers and other recyclables to the firm's new Southwest Side plant.
San Antonians ' discarded milk jugs, water bottles and newspapers are all heading to a brand-new recycling facility on the Southwest Side . The 145,000-square-foot Balcones Recycling plant will cost the city less money and sort through materials faster than what was possible under San Antonio’s old recycling contract with Republic Waste , which expired this summer. “This was just a better deal for the city,” Solid Waste Management Deputy Director Josephine Valencia said of the switch.
San Antonio won’t recycle your plastic bags anymore Valencia said the plant can process 50 tons of materials per hour, compared to the approximately 30 tons per hour that Republic Waste could handle. That faster service could mean more material gets recycled in the long run. Valencia said she expects that the city’s recycling rate — the amount the city recycles instead of tossing in a landfill — to be around 45% at the end of fiscal year 2025, which began Oct. 1.
S.A. trash trucks miss 51,000 stops a year. Here’s how the city plans to fix it. The empty cereal boxes and laundry detergent containers that show up at the facility usually only stay there about 24 hours before being shipped off. Garbage trucks deliver the materials to a large warehouse, where it's pushed into a giant pile against a wall and then separated by machines and workers.
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