Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW) – Springfield residents can expect Waste Management to collect their landscape waste for the next three years. The city council this week approved a three-year contract for $4,152,836. The vote was unanimous, with Ald. Larry Rockford absent.

“We are running approximately 19,000 collection vehicles nationally,” the company’s Kyle Lester told the council. “We are a team that has the operational expertise, the experience, and the capability to successfully manage this program and do so at a high level that residents can be exceptionally pleased with, as well as everyone here.”

Lester said the company will buy two new trucks for the program and will be collecting every other week – with the exception of once a month in January and February.

Lester boasted that Waste Management is the right kind of company. “We consistently as named one of the most ethical companies in the U.S.,” he said. “In the simplest terms, our values are this: we do the right thing, and we do it the right way, and we act with honesty, transparency, consistency, and liability.”

The contract previously went to Lake Area Disposal.