{City of Margate}
Margate will join the county waste program.
During the June 3 meeting, the Margate commission passed a resolution approving participation in the Interlocal Agreement for Solid Waste Disposal and Recycling Materials Processing Authority of Broward County, a step intended to improve coordination in waste disposal and recycling.
Sam May, interim executive director of the Broward County Solid Waste Authority, gave a presentation on the advantages of joining the agreement.
May told the commission there is an overreliance on landfills, and that if cities must negotiate trash and recycling removal services alone, they have less leverage and more risk. He said the result is a long-term negative economic impact if the cities remain fragmented and the Authority’s recycling rate remains low.
“We can extract value from our waste stream by recovering materials that can be reused locally,” said May.
He stressed the importance of combining buying power and protection from market spikes. May said this city would have more long-term control over its financial future and lower processing and disposal costs. He also said there will be an education program on the new waste disposal programs.
By participating in this agreement, Margate will be part of a large group of cities with greater negotiating power, and eventually the cost of waste removal will go down for the city and its residents. The specific amount has not yet been determined, according to Mayor Antonio Arserio.
All the garbage collected by the cities in the agreement will go to one location, whereas now it goes to multiple locations. “Because we will have more negotiating power, we will save money,” said Arserio.
Currently, waste in Margate is picked up by Republic Services, and the agreement will not change this, according to Arserio.
Residents and businesses in Broward County now generate about 5,000,000 tons of solid waste annually, or 20,000 pounds per minute, and commissioned studies project that future solid waste generation in Broward will increase by 50 percent over the next 40 years. According to city information, the single Class I landfill in Broward is nearing capacity.
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