Phoenix residents may be paying more for their trash and recycling services starting this summer. The city’s public works department is asking the City Council and mayor to increase rates over the next three years.
Lorizelda Stoeller, Phoenix’s assistant Public Works director for the solid waste division, says her department’s services don’t get general fund money to operate, so they rely on the monthly rates. And those haven’t gone up since 2020.
Right now, city residents pay $37.32 a month for their weekly trash and recycling pickup, as well as bulk trash pickups and other services. Under the proposal city officials are considering, those rates would go up $6 a month this July, followed by another $6 a month next July and $5 a month in July 2028…