Recycling & Disposal Solutions to Resume Service in Portsmouth, Va.

The city plans to sign a new recycling contract by the end of the month, ending a lapse in service that prompted officials to send recyclables to an incinerator.

At a City Council work session Tuesday night, City Manager Lydia Pettis Patton said she expects Recycling & Disposal Solutions of Virginia to resume service by Dec. 22.

Portsmouth has been collecting glass, paper and plastic from curbside bins and dumping the items at the Wheelabrator Technologies plant, where they and much of the city’s trash are burned into steam energy for nearby Norfolk Naval Shipyard and electricity that’s sold onto the grid.