Issues with Sunset Waste Recycling

A representative from Sunset Waste has been going around to some of the businesses in town attempting to get letters of recommendation from them. They approached one local business with their own letter of recommendation already prepared and typed up, when the owner was not available the company representative was requesting that employees at the business sign the letter. Seems like a very strange method of trying to solicit recommendations. I did a bit of research on them and it appears that they may be struggling to sign on more cities to their recycling contracts. I found some recent news articles that were interesting.

The City of Porterville found that they could handle their own recycling services at an estimated cost of $0.90/month for every household compared to the $4/month that Sunset Waste wanted to charge them so that Sunset could purchase new trucks. They had existing garbage trucks that were servicing the city and they could be used to lower the collection costs to its citizens. Does this sound familiar? Very similar to what we faced here in McFarland, but the Porterville council made the correct choice and decided to save taxpayer money and keep the services in house.
http://www.shafterchevron.com/resources/Sunset_Porterville.pdf

The City of Visalia decided not to extend their contract with Sunset Waste because they found that they could potentially profit from the recyclable material that they are currently not being paid for. It appears that Sunset charges us ~$4.75/month, then they turn around and still make a profit from the sale of the recyclable material that they pick up. What a sweet deal. At least with R&F we could have cut our cost down to $2.25/month.
http://www.shafterchevron.com/resources/Sunset_Visalia.pdf