MARQUETTE, MI-- The Marquette City Commission has terminated an agreement to lease land to the Marquette County Solid Waste Authority for a new recycling center.
The building was slated to be built off of McClellan Avenue, next to the old Flink farm.
Mayor Mike Coyne says the authority ran into a number of problems. Projected costs went from around $365,000 to $1.2 million.
“Then it became not economically feasible to do,” he says. “The city was going to profit by about seven dollars a ton of recycling, and with the increased costs it was going to cost us about 70 dollars a ton to recycle.”
Coyne says the commission is still very interested in making recycling profitable and more acceptable to people, and will likely revisit the issue in the future.
