It’s a revenue thing. Regardless of total consumption, the utilities need certain funding levels which go up year after year.[/quote]
This is exactly the same thing that happened at Miramar landfill when the city instituted mandatory recycling. The city gets paid tip fees from the trucks that collect trash. Because people were recycling there was less waste being collected and the tip fee revenue went down.
Now, you’d think that if they were burying less trash and handling fewer vehicle trips that they’d need less money to operate. Nope.
So they raised the tip rates and jacked up the fees for residents to use the dump by about 300%. It used to cost me about $12 to take a load of trash to the dump. Now it’s about $35.
