Posted on 01/04/2018 6:54:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Here’s your problem: “The Times reports that the city was faced with the choice of, “maintaining a level of competition among haulers, or they could award exclusive contracts to haulers for designated sectors of the city.”
“Exclusive contracts” is just another way of saying political patronage for favored contractors. Probably a lot of Equal Opportunity contracting too.
Talk about a mess: In the UK you have to have twelve (12) different tubs for different recycle stuff.
And the prices they are paying have at least doubled, sometimes going up to four times the previous cost. Service is down, costs are up and property managers are angry.
Of course, the managers and others will continue to vote Rat in order to fix the problem.
I’ve given up trying to get the spouse to see the futility of household recycling.
True believers won’t convert.
I throw stuff out and not say anything.
100% agreed.
Scavengers at least raid the blue cans for bottles and cans.
Once every two weeks or so, I fill my pickup bed with bags of trash and haul it myself to the nearest county recycle place about 5 miles away. Kitchen garbage we compost for the garden or feed it to the chickens.
There are no direct charges when dropping off the trash. Country taxes cover the cost of the recycling center.
Easy peasy.
I guess in LA that makes him sort of a hero.
Free-marketer? Hero?
Nope. A RACIST!
“”maintaining a level of competition among haulers, or they could award exclusive contracts to haulers for designated sectors of the city.” Which one do you think they went with?”
Why do I have this strange feeling that there are also kickbacks associated with these exclusive contracts?
FTA: Now they are waiting up to two weeks or even more for a pick-up.
That explains where I live. We now have 2 new dumpsters with one for recyclable stuff. No one uses it solely for that as the other one gets full so you dump everything in the other one to. They both get to overflowing now where it use to be the one we did have was enough as the garbage men would pick up enough times. Now they don’t and we all get to see a mess.
The highways here too are full of trash up against the center dividers as they are rarely swept.
Recycling is a fallacy. As the PW Director of a small county I convinced the county commissioners to abandon our programs simply by showing them and the public that there was no financial benefit and that the 3rd Party recyclers were not really recycling, but just taking this stuff to a different landfill for disposal.
For libtards it is about control of everything. Even though they talk a good game, it is not really about making things better.
Why aren’t we having criminals sorting it out.
Wouldn’t cost us anything and would serve as a deterrent.
Also criminals would get experience in sanitation engineering field.
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