Waste collection transition in Radcliff ‘ahead of schedule’

The Radcliff City Council met for a work session Monday evening.

Green River Waste Owner Dave Jolley provided an update on the company’s upcoming takeover of the city’s waste collection franchise from Waste Management. Jolley said things right now are “right on schedule, if not a little ahead of schedule.”

“Front-load boxes have started arriving,” Jolley said. “They were arriving all week last week and they’ll continue arriving through this week, and starting early next week the residential cans are going to arrive. The residential cans are being dispersed by the company that we bought the cans from, and they’re going to start doing that on December 17.”

Green River is finalizing routes and schedules and plans to provide them to the city to communicate to residents by December 20. Residents who have not done so should visit www.greenriverwaste.com and find the registration form in the “Welcome Radcliff” section.

Radcliff Mayor JJ Duvall said Waste Management will run its final scheduled routes through December 31.

“They do ask that you leave your cart out,” Duvall said. “Don’t immediately pull it back to the house once it’s been dumped that last week because their truck’s going to come by and pick those cans up.”

In other meeting news, Radcliff Planning Director Murray Wanner discussed a proposed annexation and rezoning request for 5800 South Wilson Avenue. Wanner said the property owners are asking for the annexation and rezoning in order to better match surrounding properties. The city is also proposing several amendments to the zoning ordinance that will match local guidelines for recovery residences with recently updated state regulations.

“The idea of them’s wonderful,” said Radcliff City Attorney Mike Pike. “The execution, sometimes, has been lacking, so back in the spring of 2023 the general assembly enacted, and Governor Beshear signed, the bill to strictly regulate these entities, and now it’s a brand new ball game. The recovery residences are tightly regulated, and it’s appropriate.”

The Radcliff City Council will consider those ordinances at their next meeting on December 17.