During the Drumheller Town Council meeting on Monday, September 9th, a Request For Decision was presented in regards to solid waste collection in Drumheller.
For the past seven years, GFL has done the waste collection but that will change as of January 1st, 2025. The Town has shared that their current contract with GFL expired in 2022. The Town put our a “Request for Proposal” for solid waste services, which basically allowed each applicant to suggest services the town needed, vs. the Town having specific requirements to qualify. With that said, the Town’s only requirement was to have at least 1 new truck for residential pick up to avoid delays in solid waste pick up.
The company that has won the bid was Environmental 360 (E360) which came in at $262,000 per year to start year one of the contract and by year five the cost will $289.287.28. The total cost of residential services over the contract will be $1,377,578.58. “There will be minimum interruption to residential pick up,” shares the Town of Drumheller. “The successful tender is awarded $30,000 more than the expired contract, however, all 6 proposals had increases, some much higher year-over-year as well as initially, but E360 over the duration of the contract had the least impact in terms of year-over-year increases.”
There was also discussion on curbside recycling but that is not part of the contract. “The Town will not be providing this service. In October 2022, the Government of Alberta made the announcement that the province would be implementing an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) process (EPR shifts the cost of recycling materials like single-use products, packaging and paper products (PPP), and hazardous and special products (HSP) away from our municipalities and everyday Albertans to the producers and manufacturers who supply those products into the marketplace).” The Province of Alberta will be administering curbside recycling by 2026.
The new contract will begin January 1, 2025 and be until December 31, 2029.
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