Trash rates in the city of Mexico will be increasing beginning in April.

Dayne Love of Dayne’s Waste Disposal requested the change after landfill fees increased by $8 per ton in June of 2020. After consulting with the city, it was determined that an additional 64 cents per customer each month would cover that cost.

Mexico’s City Council approved an incremental schedule. Beginning April 1, residents will see rates bumped up by 32 cents each month. Next year another 16 cents a month will be tacked on. In the final year of Dayne’s current contract with the city, the monthly charge will go up by 16 cents again, to $9.29 per month for each trash disposal customer in the city.

Customers were scheduled to pay $8.24 a month starting in April. That rate will now go to $8.56.

The city renewed its contract with Dayne in 2013. According to deputy city manager Roger D. Haynes, Dayne’s Waste Disposal has refuse contracts with other residential areas that include clauses allowing for rate adjustments based on landfill fees, fuel costs and other expenses as they fluctuate.

“The contract between Dayne’s and the city does not fully incorporate such language,” Haynes told the council. “The contract includes annual pricing adjustments that are set to take place April 1st of each contract year.”

These adjustments are flat rate and do not account for unanticipated cost increases for the disposal company.

Under the new fee schedule, roll-off container services would jump from $41 per ton to $49 per ton on April 1.

Dayne’s has operated disposal services in the city for the past 17 years. Haynes praised the company for its work and the honesty of the contract language worked out with the city.

He said the current pricing is well below market rate.