Post-snow trash will be a challenge
This year, after the heavy snowfall and delayed pickups, the post‑snow garbage cleanup will be worse than usual.
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mare 13:55 on 2025-02-28 Permalink
The garbage pickup firm ‘forgot’ to pickup about 30% of the garbage bags on my block yesterday. Intact bags, put there *after* the snow removal, and black ones so they were clearly visible. As far as I can tell, they took and emptied all garbage cans, just left behind a lot of bags.
I don’t know how garbage removal companies are paid, but having twice as much garbage will take much more time, during pickup and the increased number of trips to the garbage dump, which is probably far away.
Joey 17:01 on 2025-02-28 Permalink
I am hoping that there are clauses in the contracts that penalize contractors who leave garbage behind – in my experience, a call to 311 usually sorts that out fast. I think they just add it to another truck’s route. On our street the recycling, which is supposed to be picked up by Thursday night, is still out there. Not to much additional lingering garbage from the snowstorms.
Ian 10:18 on 2025-03-01 Permalink
Our recycling usually gets picked up Thursday – the compost trucks came around, but the recycling wasn’t picked up until Friday. Which is odd because the other side of the street has their pickup Wednesday and it all got picked up as usual. I know Ricova (who has the contract in my area) gets paid per route, not according to hours worked, so even if they were running late I don’t see why they skipped certain blocks. There was no obvious pattern, either.
I also noticed that none of the recycling in my area was gettting picked up in recycling trucks either, just regualr garbage compactor style trucks, all of it mashed together. Pretty sure it was all going straight to landfill.