Herriman takes over its own waste service Dec. 1 after withdrawing from the Wasatch Front district

HERRIMAN — The Wasatch Front Waste and Recycling District will stop serving Herriman after Nov. 30, and the city assumes full operational and financial responsibility for its waste services on Dec. 1, 2026, under an agreement the district says was finalized Sept. 28 and announced in a notice posted to the Utah Public Notice Website on Oct. 13, 2026 12.

The district says collection of garbage, recycling and green waste will continue without interruption through Nov. 30, that it will keep billing and collecting for everything provided before the transition, and that inquiries about service on or after Dec. 1 should go to Herriman City, which the district says is responsible for the broader communication to residents about the change 1.

For residents, the district says the final Wasatch Front bill for November services will be sent in the first week of December, with payment due Dec. 27, 2026, by phone at 888-891-6064 or through a one-time online payment 1. The district's page also directs residents to Herriman City's waste services website for information about service beginning Dec. 1 1.

**Notice in May, switchover in December**

The council voted 5-0 on May 13, 2026, to file a statutory notice of intent to withdraw. The presentation to the council that night described withdrawal by negotiation as "less than fruitful or productive," set out the statutory route under changes to the Utah Code made by House Bill 429, and said the notice gave the district 30 days to establish withdrawal terms with the city in writing 3.

On Sept. 9 the council approved two resolutions in sequence, both 5-0: R39-2026, an interlocal agreement with the district setting the terms of withdrawal, and R40-2026, a five-year franchise agreement with Waste Management of Utah, Inc. for solid waste services in the city 4.

City Manager Nathan Cherpeski told the council the franchise ties the hauler's increases to the consumer price index and caps them at what he believed was four percent, that Waste Management would do all the billing, and that the start had moved from the Nov. 1 that staff assumed when it wrote the report to Dec. 1 — a date he said works better for the district's billing and gives the hauler the time it needs for vehicles and the switchover 4.

**Why the city left**

Councilmember Jared Henderson said the decision was not only about the current price. He said the district's plan showed "a pretty high escalation in costs over the next several years," that the district had raised rates sharply about a year earlier and tabled an increase planned for this year once the city said it would withdraw, and that the aim was to prevent residents from seeing the bill double over the next couple of years 4.

Cherpeski described the franchise as a turnkey operation and told the council the service area is the city limits, with homeowners associations excluded because many hold their own hauling contracts; the agreement does not stop them from contracting with the hauler 4.

Councilmember Matt Basham raised enforcement of overage rules — bins left out with lids that will not close — and said residents would need education if the new hauler enforces them. Cherpeski said the district can already charge for overage and that what counts as an overage is spelled out, with education first 4. Councilmember Terrah Anderson asked whether glass food and beverage containers, which appear in the franchise's recyclable materials exhibit, would go in residents' regular recycling or a separate bin, and said she was surprised to see them listed 4. Cherpeski said glass is heavy, breaks, contaminates a mixed load and is difficult to get recycled, and that for that reason it is not usually put in single-stream collection; "Blake is more the expert on why you wouldn't have it," he said, referring to Blake Thomas, the city's community development director 4. Basham said "some clarity for that would be great" 4.

The district describes the agreement as reached "based on their request to withdraw from Wasatch Front Waste & Recycling District's (WFWRD) service area," and states that its service to its remaining customers is unaffected 1.