TFC Recycling of Chesapeake, Virginia, will be providing a $9/month subscription-based curbside recycling service to Nags Head homeowners. We're building a list of potential subscribers for TFC because they need at least 440 residences signed up to begin the service, which we aim to begin in May 2021. If you are interested, please give us your contact information and TFC will call you.
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Background
As Virginia’s largest residential curbside recycler, TFC provides recycling services for over 700,000 households and operates their own automated recycling processing facility. Therefore, they have the capacity to haul, market and sell recyclables, providing a stable outlet for the materials they will collect from Nags Head’s homeowners.
The bid price for the recycling subscription service was $14/month per residence. Nags Head’s Board agreed to subsidize the cost by $5/residence, bringing the final price down to an affordable $9/month for each homeowner.
“Reducing waste not only decreases the volume of material being sent to landfills, it also conserves other resources such as the trees, aluminum, and petroleum used to make new materials,” said Mayor Ben Cahoon. “To demonstrate how much we support curbside recycling and waste reduction efforts, our Board will be subsidizing the cost of the service. Based on our knowledge of the subscription rates in other nearby locales, the fee for our homeowners in Nags Head is likely the lowest in our immediate region.”
The Town still needs to contract with TFC but hopes to have the service in place by this summer. Because TFC plans to collect recyclables on Mondays all year long, the Town will fine-tune its trash collection schedules to accommodate the new service. In addition, Town staff will work on a plan for the blue recycling carts now at each Nags Head residence.
In May 2020, the Town suspended its town-wide curbside recycling service due to several recycling industry issues such as the collapsing market for recyclables and the rising costs to process the material. The Town had temporarily allowed its recycling vendor to haul Nags Head’s materials to a waste-to-energy facility, which was the only affordable option to continue the service. However, this was not consistent with the contract since the materials were not actively being recycled. This led to a re-evaluation of the program by the Waste Reduction Task Force and ultimately to the Board’s decision to move to a subscription-based service with a company focused solely on recycling.
To further support recycling and waste reduction efforts for non-subscribers, the Town plans to increase the volume of recyclables that can be accepted at its Town Hall and Public Works recycling collection sites.
Nags Head’s Board of Commissioners and Town staff would like to thank the members of its Waste Reduction Task Force for their diligent assistance and their thoughtful recommendations.
Monitor nagsheadnc.gov/recycling for more updates on the service including how to subscribe. For more information on TFC, visit their web site tfcrecycling.com.