LEWISTON — Plans for a single-sort recycling center run by Casella Solid Waste gets a City Council review Tuesday.

Councilors are scheduled to attend a workshop meeting to review Casella Solid Waste’s plan to build a 15,000-square-foot automated recycling center south of the city’s landfill at the transfer station. The center would collect and sort recyclables from communities in Maine and sell it on the commodities market.

Tuesday’s workshop meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. in Lewiston City Hall.

“The goal is to go over the terms and conditions and see if there are any adjustments or modifications from the council and public that we might have to look at,” City Administrator Ed Barrett said. “Potentially, we’d like to have something before council in January.”

According to Casella’s proposal, the facility would sort recyclables collected from around Maine and only from Maine. Any recyclables that could not be sorted would be taken to the company’s Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town.

The Lewiston facility would process up to 45,000 tons of recyclables per year at full capacity — all of it from Lewiston and other Maine communities. To start, the facility would process 20,000 tons of curbside recyclables per year.

It does not involve the city’s landfill at all, Barrett said.

“The objective here, is nothing would change,” Barrett said. “If people take their material to the solid waste facility, they would continue to do so, and they’ll be met by city employees. They can still drop their stuff off. And curbside recycling won’t change.”

Negotiated rules would keep any material that can’t be recycled from going into the city landfill and would keep the facility from being used to process waste from other states.

“It’s one of the reasons we’re having this meeting, to show that it has nothing to do with the landfill,” Barrett said.

Title to the buildings and any additions would remain in the city’s hands, according to latest notes. The company would give the city a $200,000 security bond and provide up to $6 million in insurance.

The latest version of the plan would give the company a 20-year lease, letting it build a 15,000-square-foot automated sorting facility in place of the current transfer station shredder building.

The company would employ 25 people with a $1 million payroll at its opening.

Economic forecasts say the facility would add about $250,000 to the city’s bottom line. The company would pay the city $100,000 in new property taxes and $60,000 per year in lease payments. It also lets the city cut $90,000 in operational costs for the shredder facility.

Casella has two material recycling facilities in Massachusetts: Auburn and Charlestown. They all follow the same process, which the company has tried to copyright as “Zero-Sort.”

This past September, Barrett and four city councilors toured the Charlestown facility, which handles 190,000 tons of recyclable materials per year.

“I was impressed with their ability to separate things,” Barrett said. “That was one of the concerns we actually had.”

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