The cost of disposing items at the Pulaski County Recycling and Transfer Station will soon be going up. The county commissioners Monday agreed to raise the transfer station’s disposal fees by 50 cents for the per-bag rate and by a penny a pound for items measured by weight.
Manager Brad Bonnell says that could bring in another $40,000 a year, based on 2020’s figures. “By the looks of the ledger that I ran a print-off of, we were just $60,000 in the hole,” he told the commissioners. “That does not include the benefits of PERF for the employees nor the insurance.”
Bonnell told the commissioners that an increase was requested by the county council during last year’s budget discussions. But he noted the county does offer free electronics disposal through the Northwest Indiana Solid Waste District, along with an annual household hazardous waste day.
The new rates will take effect August 1.
