San Antonio's contract with Republic Services ends next year. This year, the city will negotiate new landfill contracts for the first time since 1995.San Antonio hasn’t had to negotiate a landfill agreement since 1995, but all three of its contracts are coming to an end next year.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. But both facilities handle volumes of waste that are smaller than what San Antonio generates, Valencia said. The city also already has separate contracts for its recycling. “If a new solution were to present itself, whether it’s RePower South or someone else, it could continue to be explored,” Valencia said
“It was very difficult to evaluate ,” Valencia said. “I believe their long-term theoretical goal was to try to be a landfill alternative, but from their own proposal, they were saying they don’t have the technology to do that.”After Valencia took questions from the council, several members expressed interest in continuing to look for innovative landfill alternatives. But even the most progressive council members agreed with the staff’s recommendation to exclude the company’s proposal.
The unusually long current contracts were negotiated under then-Mayor Nelson Wolff, and considered a great cost-saving mechanism, said Mayor Ron Nirenberg.