05/30/2025
To residents of Columbia and Boone County, MO:
BII drop-off centers are open to the public. With that stated, local municipalities or their residents fund the fees associated with our services. When persons outside those municipalities use these sites, those communities’ volume increases which could result in their associated fees increasing due to the frequency of collections increasing, which, in turn, may cause those municipalities to incur increased costs.
The communities served by BII don’t have access to the large-scale recycling services that existed in Columbia and are generally small towns. We, at BII, operate with a small staff, hand-sorting all materials, without aid of expensive sorting devices used at the MRF in Columbia. Unfortunately, the increased volumes from even a fraction of the 125,000 residents in Columbia jeopardizes the viability of continued services to the rural communities we serve.
Respectfully, we request that residents of Columbia use restraint during this period, follow the recommendations of the city’s leadership, and continue to landfill materials until the city develops a comprehensive plan to restore recycling services for the City of Columbia.
