The State and The City

For your information - this is one of the ways the State is attempting to fix it's budget problem. The City will actually end up being the one who charges the additional fees - but it goes to the State. Not quite as mean and desperate as California - but still making the cities raise their revenues.

The State Budget is proposing to increase tipping fees that are paid per ton of solid waste (excluding high volume industrial waste) from the current $5.90 per ton to $13.00 per ton. This is a 120% solid waste tipping fee increase that will be passed on to city residents in their Sanitation and Recycling fees.
The State is proposing to Increase funding for the recycling grant program by $20 million in each year of the biennium. It is projected that the total increase of $7.10 per ton on municipal solid waste will generate an additional $44.1 million per year.
The 24.1 million in funds per year will be used to fund other environmental programs and environmental debt service, freeing up general purpose revenue to balance the state budget.