NATCHEZ — Although Adams County is ending its curbside recycling program, the City of Natchez is continuing its program and plans to host a meeting in April to discuss the future of recycling in the Miss-Lou.

The Adams County Board of Supervisors plan to discontinue curbside recycling April 1 for the 500 houses in the county’s pilot program. County Administrator Joe Murray has said the county is paying $10,000 annually for the program and only 100 houses are participating.

Natchez Mayor Darryl Grennell said the citywide curbside recycling program, which began in 2013, would continue.

Grennell said the city would host a community-wide meeting to discuss the future of recycling in April. The meeting will be held in partnership with the City of Vidalia, which no longer has a curbside recycling program.

“We want to discuss the state of recycling and the future of recycling,” Grennell said.

The City of Natchez pays Waste Pro USA a monthly per-household fee for recycling as part of its garbage collection contract.

The viability of the program has been complicated by low oil and commodity prices making recycling less profitable, resulting in Concordia Metals no longer accepting the city’s recyclables. Transporting recyclables out of town has added cost to the program for Waste Pro.

The city’s curbside recycling is picked up every week on Wednesday.

Items that can be recycled include:

4No. 1 and No. 2 plastics, such as beverage bottles, condiment containers, shampoo bottles, milk jugs and other items. No. 2 food trays cannot be recycled.

4Paper and cardboard products, such as newspapers, magazines, phone books, catalogs, office paper, flattened corrugated cardboard, cereal boxes and other items.

Paper products must be kept dry.

4Metal items such as aluminum cans and steel vegetable and soup cans.

Items that cannot be recycled are plastics Nos. 3-7, such as Styrofoam cups, Solo cups and plastic bags, glass, wax-covered cardboard, televisions or computer monitors.