Beginning April 2019, you may see a Commodity Adjustment Fee (CAF) that applies to recycling collection customers.
The recyclables commodities market is subject to significant price fluctuations. To adjust for the impact of such fluctuations on our business, TDS is assessing a Commodity Adjustment Fee to recycling customers’ invoices that allows TDS to collect, process and sell recyclables at an acceptable operating margin.
The fee is usually a charge, but in limited cases can be a credit to a customer’s bill, because it changes with the prices for recyclable commodities.
We continually monitor changes in the recycling commodities market and may adjust prices, at our discretion, in the future.