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Lafayette Recycling Toters Still Weeks Away As Ad Company Circles

Charlie Criscola
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It’ll be several more weeks before Lafayette residents get their new recycling containers.

Mayor Tony Roswarski, speaking Thursday on WBAA’s “Ask The Mayor,” says the city plans to place an order for between 22,000 and 24,000 of the 96-gallon toters in the next few days.

“We’re going to be ordering the toters at the first part of next week and we hope to be rolling them out yet this fall,” Roswarski says.

The mayor says a company which will sell ads on the lids of the recycle bins has begun canvassing the community looking for companies willing to pay to put ads on waste containers.

Those ads are designed to raise enough revenue to help the city pay for more than 90-percent of the $1.3-1.4 million cost of buying the bins.