Redgate affirms that recycling items go to proper place

At last month’s Plattsburg City Council meeting, during public participation, resident Frank Lewis asked the council about the town’s trash and recycle collection contractor, Redgate Disposal, and said he had witnessed Redgate taking the city’s recycle to the trash dump in St. Joseph.

St. Joseph and a few different transfer stations in Kansas City.

Redgate collects the recycling in Gower on the same truck as Plattsburg. It’s collected in Gower first, then weighed at D-Tone to log Gower’s total. Then Plattsburg’s recycling is collected and weighed at GFL prior to drop-off.

ongoing professional development opportunities, collaboration among teachers, and regular monitoring and evaluation, the district ensured that the new curriculum was being delivered consistently and with fidelity.”

Additionally, Dr. Steggall said the district saw a substantial increase in attendance thanks to the efforts of the staff, students, parents and more. Also, despite the ongoing educator shortage in the industry, the Clinton County R-III School District was able to fill every teaching position ahead of the school year.

Josh Peterson, general manager at Redgate Disposal, denied the claim last week and expanded on the company’s operations in Plattsburg, as well as in Gower and Lathrop.

Peterson said Redgate has three collection trucks for Plattsburg—two for solid waste and one specifically for recycling. The recycling truck collects from the red curbside bins, and everything else is collected in the trash trucks. Once the recycling is collected, it is taken to GFL Environmental in Kansas City for processing. Peterson said that GFL Environmental does accept trash, too, but first divides out recyclable items from the waste.

But Redgate doesn’t take its solid waste to GFL, but rather to the landfill in

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automatically go away after 2042 unless otherwise approved by the voters. Projections put the cost of a new middle school at as much as $16 million; district officials anticipate financing as much as $15 million through a lease-purchase mechanism, with the rest coming out of the district’s existing capital funds.

East Buchanan wasn’t the only the school district in the area to go to the voters on Tuesday. The Stewartsville C-2 School District asked its residents for a $1 increase per $100 assessed value to attract and retain staff. Unofficially, the measure passed 147 to 125. In Clinton County, voters favored the increase 21-12, while DeKalb County voters signed off on it to the tune of 126 votes to 113 votes.

Redgate operates its recycling a little differently in Lathrop, which specifically uses ClinCo Industries in Cameron for its recycle processing. To facilitate the partnership, Redgate collects the town’s recycling using a trailer. Peterson said that both ClinCo and GFL have been great to work with.

In light of the claim at the city council meeting, Redgate sent the city’s recycling tickets to City Administrator Chase Waggoner for review.

Peterson said that small communities are the backbone of their operations, performing approximately 14,000 pick ups each week for a number of towns, which also include Weston, Lawson, Holt, Dearborn, Savannah and Stewartsville.