Austin Resource Recovery has released new details on plans to build a central hub where city garbage and composting trucks transfer their loads to bigger trucks before the waste is hauled to out-of-town disposal sites. Department officials said the hub, also called a transfer station, would help improve city services and reduce emissions from disposal trucks. But questions remain about the location and cost of the proposed facility.
Right now, when city waste collection trucks fill up on their routes, the drivers need to go long distances 鈥� sometimes more than 30 miles 鈥� to empty out at landfills and composting sites. The transfer station would be closer to the central city, where city sanitation workers would move the loads into much bigger trucks before the long haul.
鈥淭his is gonna be a big building, everything is gonna be done totally indoors. No trash sits there overnight, all trash will be removed every day,鈥� said Austin Resource Recovery Director Richard McHale. 鈥淪o this isn鈥檛 the final disposal facility, merely a transfer facility.鈥�