TUSTIN
The City Council has voted 3 to 2 to seek bids from companies that could provide residents with voluntary recycling service in an effort to meet state requirements by next year.
City residents now use their own trash cans, and recyclable materials are sorted at a waste management facility. In 1998 only 29% of the city’s waste was recycled or diverted from county landfills. State law requires cities to cut trash in half by 2000.
Councilmen Thomas R. Saltarelli and Jeffery M. Thomas voted against seeking bids. They said they wanted to make sure that any trash pickup provider keep the city’s current two-day residential trash schedule and not inconvenience residents.
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