i love the new trash service and my pick up day

once a week collection might help some people realize they produce too much trash and need to re-evaluate their consumption / waste

It's not about the citizens...

26 post about how a city collects its trash.
Hmm slow news day huh?

Well, allow me to jump on the band wagon!

Don't like your trash service...move to Naples Italy and then tell me how upset you are about how you have to put your own trash out. For those of you who don't know Naples it is the most trashy city in Italy due to garbage strikes on a regular basis. Just a bit of useles knowledge.

The bottom line is the city has made it very easy to take out your trash and to recycle compost. I have to commend the city on this and thrash the residents who are incapable of paying a minute amount of attention to detail. By the way, 5ft from the curve is just off the sidewalk so that folks can still use it. Its not that hard...really.

I believe that the city has made up their mind and will do whatever they can, including passing new resolutions, to make this work despite what the public believes. What ever happened to government by the people and for the people?

I don't mind so much the $5.00 a month extra for a second can. I do have a problem with the once a week pick up especially during the warmer months. It is disgusting to smell the trash can after a week of putting garbage in it. Not to mention the maggots that crawl up the side of the trash can to greet you when you add more trash to it. Of course with the automated system it seems that it should be faster to pick up the trash and we would be able to still have our twice a week pick up. Less services for the same amount of money: it does not seem like a bargain. Maybe the city should reevaluate the trash pick up so that the citizens are served more to their liking.

This once a week garbage system was suppossed to save us money. I don't see where my bill is going down. Also this little bitty trash can for a family of 6. I mean why should I have to pay an additional 5.00 a month to "borrow" a trash can. victoria isn't a big city and should not be treated like one. When I lived in CA we had one trash can for yard waste, one for recycle stuff and another for the other stuff. If we are going to have once a week pickup they should have another can for the stuff to recycle. I mean if it weren't for pizza boxes and water bottles and stuff like that I might be able to make it a week with one trash can. Don't have a party with the new trash cans. You won't make it until next trash day. I guess when I have a get together or something I will have to make my friends and family take some trash home. I don't know what else to do. I can't afford to waste almost 100 a year to "borrow" a trash can. And you wonder why people are littering. Get a grip and give households with a bigger number of family members an extra trash can for FREEE.

What kind of city government do we have that is putting their resources into "cracking down on violators".....of the trash rules? What about the bad drivers? What about the drugs and crime rate? Priorities here, please.

My garbage service still costs the same as it did before. And they are still collecting ALL my weeks worth of garbage.

HOWEVER
IF I find that I am no longer able to fit all my garbage in my ONE can, I can get a SECOND can for $5 a month

Other services I pay for:
electricity (the amount I use affects how much I pay)
water (the amount I use affects how much I pay)
phone (how much and what type of calls I make affect how much I pay)
cable (the channels I want to watch affect how much I pay)

Yes household garbage is nasty and dangerous, that is exactly why it should be picked up regardless if people aren't folloing the rules. If this is a problem then the people not following the rules should be fined. If anyone watches the council meetings on TV they would know that the new system was put in place to save the City money, but it cost more to run the new system and the taxpayers will have to suffer for it. As for some of the violations like keeping the can 5 ft from obstacles is fine, but what happens when your neighbor parks his/her car to close to your can after it's put out. Is that your fault so you should have to suffer? Somethings are practical but some are not. Don't forget your getting have the service (one pick up a week) that cost you more money.

d6975. Great suggestion. I've never considered myself as a tree hugger, but recycling is plain old common sense. I do recycle aluminum cans, and do not get the VA anymore. I have always thought that one subdivision at a time could go to some well thought out recycle program on a once a month pickup. Aluminum cans, newspaper, plastic bottles would be a great help for our city landfill space and the good old ecology. This could be pulled off by a few volunteers in each subdivision if the city could not or would not facilitate a program like this. But .......

Are they ever going to have recycled stuff picked up? There would be so much more recycling if they did. The south doesn't do much recycling from what I've seen.

Seems to me that this started back in 2005 or 2006. The City hired a consulting firm to study the City's current System for waste disposal and offer suggestions as to what they should do.
The consultants found that the it was costing the City more to pick up the garbage and tree limbs than the customers were being charged.

Alton is correct, garbage is nasty. Manually picking up garbage is nasty. It's also dangerous, since some people dispose of used syringes in there garbage.
Hepatitis, tetanus, back injuries --- all potential hazards faced in a routine day collecting garbage by hand.

here, here Pat. This isn't rocket science, just follow the rules. Good grief, some folks are going to be complaining about garbage till the cows come home. I understand not everyone likes the new system. I didn't like how the fall elections came out either, but I'm still going to obey the law and follow the rules.

For the most part, my house has adjusted just fine to the new cart, and I have made room for it in my garage. Sure wish more of my neighbors would do the same or put the cart behind their fence.

This all started when the city hired Lesak from Waste Management. They are making too many restrictions on a service that we as residents cannot refuse or hire someone else to do. I'd say that there might be some Constitutional issues here.....

"Place cart in front of curb or street gutter at least five feet away from any obstacle, with wheels and handle facing the residence."
I look down my street on Mondays and the carts are about half and half in the street next to the curb or on the grass between the sidewalk and street next to the curb. So far, all have been picked up, but I'm thinking that about half the people on my street are doing it wrong. I'm not sure which half that is, though. Does in front of the curb mean in the street or on the grass?

No, Alton. The better thing to do would be for some Victoria residents to quit bowing their necks and follow the rules. I just do not get the obstinance of some people in this town. They are going to do things their way or no way. Maybe if enough neighbors gang up on these people for creating a health hazard in the neighborhood, it'll stop. I don't think the city has the resources any longer to go manually pick up garbage from the inconsiderates that won't follow the rules. Most of the workers went to other departments on the 20th. Doesn't it just make you mad enough to spit to know that you follow the rules because you are a law-abiding citizen and your neighbor doesn't?

Not picking up garbage in my opinion is a health hazard. Seems to me a more healthy solution would to have a major increase on the services for manual pick-up. If the bill was not paid, place a tax lien on the property along with addition late fees. Garbage is nasty.