<div dir="ltr"><div>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.</div>
<div>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.<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 9:51 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lisagrob@verizon.net">lisagrob@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Lou King wrote:</font></div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2"><br></font>
<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">> Did I miss a memo????</font></div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2"><br></font>
<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">(Those of of you that remember my rant about the SIZE of the recycle container can move on to the next email.)</font></div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2"><br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">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?</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">{NOTE this is not the "Cranky Old Coot" speaking but, me, his serious minded keeper.}</font></div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2"><br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">{I'm sorry, it is just not possible to speak seriously about such a ludicrous situation.}</font></div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2"><br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">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!</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">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.</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">In short what I see is a system designed for the convenience of the trash collection entity - customers (taxpayers) be damned.</font></div><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2"><br>
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<div align="left"><font face="Verdana" color="#000000" size="2">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</font></div>
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