Henrico County officials soon may implement an annual $24 recycling fee on every residential dwelling in the county, as part of an effort to expand the county’s recycling efforts while overcoming financial shortfalls with the current program and preparing for costs that could rise even more in a few years.

The plan, presented Tuesday night to the Henrico Board of Supervisors, calls for the fee to be imposed in two $12-increments annually – once in June and again in December. It would be added onto the public utility bills of the county’s 97,000 or so customers, sent separately to another 6,200 or so households that aren’t utility customers and sent to the management companies of the 37,000 or so apartment units in Henrico, according to Henrico Finance Director Meghan Coates.