Marthasville city officials are considering offering a recycling service to residents, but have delayed any official action until getting input from residents. Should the weekly service be added, residents would see their trash collection bills increase by $4 to $14 a month. A free 95-gallon recycling container would be provided by Grace Hauling to all residents. While all city officials indicated at Tuesday's board of alderman meeting they support the recycling program, they hesitated to vote on the matter until receiving more feedback from residents. Aldermen are asking residents to contact them to express support or opposition to the program and fee increase. At next month's meeting, scheduled for June 8, aldermen will vote on whether to approve the recycling agreement with Grace Hauling. Alderman Jim Struckhoff, who supports recycling, was concerned that residents may object to paying more during a time economic period. "Is it the right time to do this?" Struckhoff asked. "People are living paycheck to paycheck. It's one more thing they have to (pay for). . . I don't want to throw something in their face now when they are already struggling." The city's trash collection contract with Grace Hauling is set to expire in June, but will automatically renew next month. Last year the city took no action to add recycling, but officials remained interested in revisiting the program. "I think more and more people are getting into recycling," Mayor Dale Verges said. "I think it's a good idea. Marthasville needs to go green." Currently, the monthly trash collection fee charged to residents is $10, of which $1 goes to the city for administrative purposes. By adding recycling, the monthly charge would increase to $14, with all residents paying the fee, even if they elect to not participate in the program. Trash pickup would remain on Wednesdays, also the same day the recyclable items would be picked up. Aldermen pointed out that residents would be paying $48 annually for recycling, a fee that amounts to less than $1 per week. "I think it would be worth getting involved," Alderman Keith Hagedorn said. Some of the recyclable materials that would be collected include aluminum cans, bottles, cereal boxes, milk jugs, newspapers, pie tins, empty aerosol cans and any product emblazoned with the recycle triangle emblem. Some of the items that would not be accepted include ceramic, food waste, napkins, paper plates, paper towels, rubber products and Styrofoam. A second trash collection proposal was submitted by Waste Management and reviewed by city officials. The monthly charge would increase to $21.10 if a 96-gallon container for trash and a 64-gallon container for recycling materials are provided. The fee would be $21.10 and $21.70 for the following two years. If only a 64-gallon recycling toter is provided, the monthly fee drops to $19.75 for the first year and $20.30 and $20.95 for the next two years. Also included in Waste Management's proposal was the chance for each home to have one "bulky item" picked up each month at no charge on the last trash pickup day of the month.