Thursday, February 6, 2025

CWD raises trash rates

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AZLE — Effective in February, trash rates in the city of Azle are set to increase. Residential rates will increase by $0.34 to $24.09, which includes a $.01 increase for the X-Treme Green Event. Commercial handload will increase by $0.54 to $34.82. All stated residential rates include billing and franchise fees and all commercial rates include only the 6% franchise fee as CWD assumed the billing of commercial accounts Feb. 15, 2024.

Trash services within Azle city limits are managed by Community Waste Disposal. CWD general manager J.B. Sweeney answered questions about the rate increase during a Jan. 21 Azle City Council meeting. Assistant to the city manager Susie Hiles introduced the topic.

“No one has apples to apples on trash,” Hiles said. “Everybody's got something different. The closest to us in this area is Keller. They also use CWD, but they still don't have exactly the same type of services that we do, we have a very rich trash service in this community with trash, recycling, bulk items, brush, leaves. Our residents get free paint. We have the two events that occur twice a year for the city-wide cleanup events that are always well attended. We've been having them for years, and they continue to be used by our residents. It’s, in my opinion, a modest rate increase. Part of this is due to their landfills going up in cost.”

Council members and Sweeney commented that Azle used to have its own landfill that shut down many years ago. Sweeney said that today, trash from Azle is often taken to the Southeast Landfill in Fort Worth, the Arlington Landfill or the Hunter Ferrell Landfill in Irving.