Cleaned and baled cardboard and aluminum sit ready for shipping at Recology’s Sonoma Marin material recovery facility in Santa Rosa on Jan. 25, 2024. Humans and computers controlling optical scanners sort recyclables by type of material. (Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News)

On Tuesday, the Marin County Board of Supervisors will consider a proposed 9% rate increase for waste collection services in West Marin.

A public hearing will consider an increase that would apply to customers served by Recology Sonoma Marin. If approved, the increase would take effect April 1.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.