CARY – Starting Dec. 1, the village will have a new provider picking up trash.

The Village Board on Tuesday awarded a seven-year contract to Veolia ES Solid Waste Midwest.

Groot Industries’ four-year contract expires Nov. 30. Groot had been the village’s trash collection provider for the past 12 years.

As part of the monthly charge, residents will have unlimited landscape waste pickup. Stickers for landscape waste pickup will not be required for the next landscape season beginning April 1.

About 1,190 multifamily units, which are part of nine homeowners’ associations in Bright Oaks, Cambria, Cary Street, Cary Woods, Charlotte, Danbury, Park Avenue, Sienna Point/Harper Court and West Lake, will have the right to waive unlimited landscaping service for a reduced rate.

Also, all single-family and eligible multifamiliy properties will have 65-gallon recycling bins – called toters – that replace the current 35-gallon carts.

“Recycling will become a fully automated service ... with these carts that have wheels, allowing residents to hopefully recycle more at the curb,” Village Administrator Chris Clark said.

Residents still will have the choice of having a 95-gallon cart, 35-gallon cart or a pay-per-bag service.

About 1,400 residents who use the pay-per-bag service will have a new monthly fee of $6.63. The price per bag will drop to $2.95 from $4.15.

“They’re getting the recycling service, getting the spring cleanup service, ... those things cost money, they’re not free,” Trustee Bruce Kaplan said. “Other people have been subsidizing those services for residents who have been paying nothing. It was our decision ... to make sure everyone paid their fair share for this service.”

Residents who have the 95-gallon toter will see a savings of 25 to 26 percent before the landscape fees are added in, Village President Tom Kierna said.

“It’s even greater when you take into account leaf stickers, depending how many yard-waste stickers people buy,” Kierna said.

Residents who now use seven or more yard-waste stickers a year will see greater savings, Kierna said.

In the seven-year contract, annual price increases are capped at 2.5 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is lower.

Cary also will move to a Monday-through-Thursday schedule as part of the new contract. Currently, trash pickup is Wednesday through Friday. The new schedule is being developed.

“Veolia will rebalance the refuse routes with the goal of changing refuse days as minimal as possible,” Clark said in an email.

Both Kierna and Trustee Rick Dudek lauded Groot’s service.

“They have been a very classy, customer service-oriented partner with us,” Kierna said. “They’ve done a fine job. At the end of the day, in this environment, it’s an economic decision. ... It no way reflects on the service you’ve provided to us.”

Frank Hillegonds, the municipal affairs manager for Groot, spoke at Tuesday’s board meeting about losing the contract.

“We’ve been working closely with the village for 12 years. ... You guys are great, [we] appreciate it,” Hillegonds said. “You know, sometimes when you do something for as long as we’ve had, you know what it takes to pick up, you know what it costs, I wouldn’t have bid what you received. Unfortunately, that’s just the way it is. I wish you luck, and we’ll see you in seven years.”

Cary is not the only municipality to switch waste haulers. McHenry recently switched from MDC Environmental Services to Waste Management Co. Marengo is in the process of evaluating its next trash-collection contract.