The City of Norman will pay Waste Management $2.24 per month, per customer to do curbside recycling. The contract will increase by 10 percent each year for a cost to the City of $3.28 per month in the fifth year.

Waste Management will provide educational materials to launch the service, including a "recycling robot" to bring to schools.

"The City does have other costs," said Utilities Director Ken Komiske. "Including billing, processing, collections and bad debts. ... That makes up some of the difference also."

Waste Management also will award a $100 savings bond to a recycling customer chosen by its drivers.

The City of Norman's sanitation department will help with house-side recycling for the about 1 percent of Norman's population who are not able to take their recycling to the curb.

Wesner also lauded Norman's early recycling advocates, including McDonald's franchise owner Charlie Altom, Ed Copelin of Copelin's Office Supply and Dr. J.B. Pratt who owned Pratt's Grocery Store, an original site of one of the recycling dropoff centers.

"We hope to beat Edmond with the number of materials we're able to send off to Waste Management," Wesner said, adding that CORE is committed to helping with materials to help people do recycling.

The City's three recycling centers will continue to operate.

Komiske said the City will have a temporary recycling center on the east side of the parking lot at Griffin Park during winter months, to replace the eastside center that was closed down recently.

"We continue to look for a permanent location," said City Manager Steve Lewis.

Sooner Mall also may be the new location of the recycling center currently located in the Hobby Lobby parking lot.

Not everyone was happy with the curbside recycling vote.

George Eyler said if a curbside recycling bin is delivered to him, he will not pick it up.

"I feel terribly put upon," Eyler said of the mandatory $3 monthly charge approved by Norman voters. "I'm not convinced my friends or neighbors have the right to do that to me."

Rosenthal told Eyler he was "not compelled to recycle."