Pricing & Fees

In order to provide environmentally compliant, safe, and stellar service Southwaste Disposal will occasionally need to increase service rates.  Increases in rates are not taken lightly and are a necessity in order to keep pace with rising operational costs and environmental guidelines.  Over the past year Southwaste Disposal has absorbed cost increases in labor, fuel, regulatory, and equipment that has exceed CPI adjustment averages.

Southwaste has implemented a Fuel Surcharge that is indexed to the price of diesel fuel as recorded by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). The rate of the fuel surcharge is determined at the beginning of each quarter by cross-referencing the EIA published US weekly On-Highway diesel fuel price with the Company’s Fuel Surcharge Schedule. Customers benefit from this system as, when Southwaste’s fuel costs decrease objectively, so do customer’s costs. This surcharge replaces all prior fuel charges and environmental fees except city specific charges.

Please note: The amount or percentage of your Fuel Surcharge is not specifically tied to the direct or indirect costs to service a specific customer account, and rates are established by contract or at a WRM operating company’s discretion. Through fuel surcharges, WRM operating companies attempt to collectively recover all WRM enterprise-wide costs for diesel, natural gas and other hydrocarbon-based fuels and related products used by WRM operating companies on a local, regional or national basis, and the fuel surcharges are designated for achieving a reasonable rate of return and operating margin.

Trucks and fuel are some of our most significant operating costs and this surcharge allows us to maintain competitive rates, even as operating expenses rise.

Southwaste Disposal reserves the right to charge you a late payment fee if you fail to pay your balance on or before the invoice due date. Late payment fees help Southwaste Disposal to offset the costs associated with collections and managing unpaid accounts.

Experiencing an emergency? Southwaste Disposal works hard to create efficient dispatch routes and in order to accommodate emergency service, Southwaste may need to charge an additional emergency fee to offset the cost associated with changing those routes.

In select municipalities Southwaste is required to purchase manifests and maintain a historical manifest record. In these municipalities, Southwaste charges a Manifest Fee to help offset the direct costs of the manifests and the administrative costs of recording and archiving manifests.

The City of Houston Water and Sewer fee is applied to Houston locations to partially offset the cost of Houston’s wastewater utility surcharges.

Franchise fees are charged by certain municipalities for services rendered inside their jurisdictions. If applicable, these fees are billed separately and submitted to the appropriate franchising authority.