Waste Management's announcement last week that it purchased a one-acre parcel on East Commercial Row to allow construction of a recycling center inches the proposal forward.
The company still needs to revise its contract with the City of Reno before it will move forward with construction of the center, said Waste Management spokesman Justin Caporusso. It's in talks with city staff members.
Waste Management proposes construction of a 60,000-square-foot Ecocenter that would enable introduction of a single-stream recycling program. In a single-stream approach, consumers toss all their recycable materials into a single curbside cart, and the materials are sorted at a central center.
Waste Management has said a single-stream system is necessary to allow it to meet a Washoe County requirement that calls for diversion of 35 percent of the waste stream.
If it moves forward with the proposal, Waste Management would move existing offices on Commercial Row into a newly built building on the land it just purchased. The Ecocenter would be built at the site of the current offices.
