[RP TownTalk] trash "cans"

Thu Aug 7 19:21:57 UTC 2008

Am I missing something here?.... Won't Bates still pick up trash in the old
bins? If the new ones are too big for someone to manuever, it seems to me
they could just use a smaller one.
I personally like the new one because of wheels. I will rarely ever fill it,
but when I do it will be handy to be able to just roll one can out instead
of dragging three.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:51 AM, <lisagrob at verizon.net> wrote:

>  You don't have to fill it :)  I find it be easier than my smaller cans
> because it has wheels.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at  2:20 PM, Lou King wrote:
>
> > Did I miss a memo????
>
> (Those of of you that remember my rant about the SIZE of the recycle
> container can move on to the next email.)
>
> I don't think I missed a council meeting covering Bates taking over trash
> collection for Riverdale Park - but when was it discussed that each single
> family home would be required to move around an APARTMENT SIZED trash bin?
>
> {NOTE this is not the "Cranky Old Coot" speaking but, me, his serious
> minded keeper.}
>
> If I were not the healthy, strapping, young male that I am, and say I was
> my neighbor Mickie G.,  I would be unable to take out my trash! Not to say
> Mickie is a helpless little old lady, (if she heard me say that I would
> leave town for my own safety) but; For her to take out a bag of empty
> protein supplement jars from the bodybuilding store, she has to, with one
> hand, open the lid (that rises over my head), and use here other arm to jerk
> and clear her trash almost shoulder high (over 1 meter) to get it in these
> new cavernous roll-on dumpster.
>
> {I'm sorry, it is just not possible to speak seriously about such a
> ludicrous situation.}
>
> Reading TownTalk I know that all my neighbors are concerned about the
> environment and expanding landfills. As such they all take their reusable
> (or recycled) bags to RP Farmer's Market and generate mostly compostable
> trash and make other purchases with an eye on the produce-to-packaging
> ratio. For example, myself, I have only half fulled the small yellow recycle
> bin sense mid-May when I tried to leave town. It is mostly dog food cans and
> is an old story. This is about trash.
>
> In the winter I take my 30" tall trash can to the curb every-other week or
> so (more often in warm weather for obvious, odious reasons). I have to start
> using the green dumpster left at my house, the container will weigh more
> that my weekly trash! Wheels or not, I will have to drag this thing across
> my yard to E. Beale. This is easier than haling it up the drive to the front
> of the house.
>
> What I think will happen with the trash "dumpsters" is what I have observed
> with the recycle bins-on-wheels. Several people in town don't/can't hide
> their big recycle bins behind their steps, by their back door as they did
> the smaller yellow recycle bins.  Drive through town. How many recycle bins
> do you see sitting our front? Where before a home owner/renter would buy a
> trash can sized for their needs, and that they could hale to the street.  We
> are now concerned with what to do with these "people" sized containers and
> obliged to uses over sized containers.
>
> Personally, when I moved to town I planted a flowering, red berried cane by
> my back step to hide what I needed for trash from E. Beale. No, the new
> behemoths will not fit.
>
> I just went out and checked, the trashcan I fill ever week/week-and-a-half
> is a 30 gallon container. The recycle bin from the county is 64 gallons and
> the new Bates container is bigger than that!
>
> Now I "know" this is all for efficiency, etc. but have you notices that the
> recycle truck workers don't have, or don't use, equipment to empty the
> recycle bins? What I see is two guys flipping open my neighbor's container,
> grabbing it and dumbing it in the back of the truck. There is a message
> here. OSHA -  or the trash collector, requires TWO workers to hale around
> the container to avoid injury. A single resident, on the other hand, is
> expected to move the same container to the curb. Why? Because the resident
> is not employed as a trash person and therefore not covered by OSHA.
>
> In short what I see is a system designed for the convenience of the trash
> collection entity - customers (taxpayers) be damned.
>
> Louis King
>
> PS If you want to hear this rant again come to the working session, 25
> Aug.  I know it is a done deal. But I do wish to let the elected officials
> know how their efforts to save money have reduced the quality of life (and
> the view) in Riverdale Park and how that may effect my decisions next May.
> COC
>
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