NATCHEZ, Miss. – City officials are seeking garbage-collection companies wanting to haul away and dispose Natchez residents’ trash. The contracts with the city’s current waste companies expire later this year.
The Board of Aldermen on Tuesday voted to request proposals from companies on how much they would charge for the specific services they can provide.
City residents now pay $24.15 a month per household to have their trash collected and disposed of. The fee is attached to their monthly bill from the Natchez Water Works for water and sewage services.
The city’s garbage and disposal expenses totaled about $1.5 million this past year, with Arrow Disposal Services getting $1.4 million of that for collecting the city’s trash. The remaining funds went mostly to Waste Management and Greenway Environmental Services for landfilling the garbage in their waste dumps.
Arrow provides three-times-a-week curbside trash collection service (one pickup for recyclables) with each household also getting two large, wheeled garbage containers
Arrow won the city trash-collection contract in 2018 to replace Waste Pro. As the contract with Arrow nears its May expiration, Mayor Dan Gibson has said city officials will be considering various alternatives for Natchez’ garbage-collection services.
The city’s disposable garbage is now being hauled to Waste Management’s south Adams County landfill after several years of being taken north to Greenway’s landfill in Jefferson County near Fayette.
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