SAN CLEMENTE : Trash Collection Fee Hike Approved
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The City Council has approved an increase in the residential trash-collection fees.
Households with 60-gallon containers will pay $1.17 more a month to Solag Disposal for garbage collection, raising the rate to $14.42. Households with smaller, 35-gallon bins will pay 61 cents more, or $12.37.
The higher rates will offset a 54% increase in dumping fees that Orange County imposed on county landfills, said Mike Sorg, public works director.
Tom Trulis, owner of Solag Disposal, said his company will not benefit from the rate increase. “Everything I collect is going right to the county,” he said.
The city also voted this week to join Dana Point, Laguna Niguel and San Juan Capistrano--all of which contract with Solag Disposal--in an audit of the trash collection company. City staffers say that Solag may have overestimated how much garbage each trash bin can hold. Because the company charges per pound of garbage, some households may be paying too much, Sorg said.
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