Republic Waste sells Belleville trash pickup contract to Priority-1

At the Sept, 5 meeting of the Belleville City Council, DPW Director Rick Rutherford announced that he got a call on Sept. 1 from Republic Waste announcing that it had sold its residential trash pickup contract with the city of Belleville to Priority-1 Waste.
Rutherford said they told him they are getting out of residential trash and Priority-1 will honor the contract with the city.
“Priority-1 has bought out Belleville,” he said.
Rutherford said the city’s contract expires next September and so there will be ongoing negotiations.