[RP TownTalk] Recycling collection this week

[Dwight Holmes]

At times like this, I am comforted (only) by Voltaire's assertion that we
live in the "best of all possible worlds".

On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 1:22 PM Corey Slavitt <coreyls at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On the bright side, while Oglethorpe Street's overflowing recycling bins
> remain at the curb with recycling items falling into the street and blowing
> a few houses down into the Anacostia River, at least Thursday's trash
> pickup did not include dumping the recycling bins into the trash pick-up
> truck -- an event which frequently happens on Oglethorpe. When I've tried
> to pull back the recycling bin from the trash pick-up crew -- saying I'll
> take it back and put it out the following week -- crew members pull back
> the recycling bin from me saying they just have to get the bins emptied and
> off the street and it doesn't matter where the contents end up.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dwight Holmes
> Sent: Dec 27, 2019 11:53 AM
> To: Heather Cronk
> Cc: Fiona Jardine , TownTalk
> Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Recycling collection this week
>
> I just talked to the town,  and they confirmed the pick up was to have
> been yesterday,  and that several people have called to say theirs wasn't
> picked up.  As for actual,  current status,  we'd have to call the county,
> who provides the service.  I just tried (311) and got cut off....
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 11:33 AM Heather Cronk <heather.cronk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We also put our recycling out on the night of the 25th to make sure it
>> was out first thing on the 26th and hasn’t yet been collected (as of
>> 11:30am on the 27th). We’re in the northwest corner of Ward 1, around the
>> corner from Fiona. Any idea from Town staff of when recycling will be
>> picked up?
>>
>> -Heather
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 11:07 AM Fiona Jardine <fij at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> Anyone know if we’ll get a collection today? It said in the town
>>> crier/town calendar that it was going to happen yesterday (12/26). We have
>>> a lot of stuff on the curb, really don’t want to have to move it all back,
>>> especially since next Wednesday is New Year’s Day, so again no normal
>>> collection.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Fiona
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