Tri-Cities garbage prices going up

Time for the annual grumbling over the price of getting rid of our junk.

July 1 is the day Batavia, Geneva and St. Charles raise the cost of garbage pickup.

The three towns offer residents options including slapping on a sticker-per-33-gallon-can, a reduced-price half-size refuse bag, and rental of large garbage toters.

In Batavia, the cost of stickers goes up 8 percent, from $2.77 to $3. Those who rent 95-gallon containers will pay 90 cents more per month, at $22.15.

Genevans will pay 4.4 percent more, as their stickers now cost $3.05. Genevans also will pay 90 cents more per month, or $21.65, for the 95-gallon container.

And in St. Charles, customers will pay 3.1 percent more, at $2.62 per sticker. Those who use the 95-gallon containers will pay 3 percent more, at $20.09.

St. Charles and Batavia contract with Veolia Environmental Services; Geneva contracts with Waste Management.

Those who still have old stickers can continue to use them.

In North Aurora, prices increased a month ago, to $3.06 a sticker for Waste Management service.