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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Our trash can was left in the street
too. We found it getting ready to go down into the creek (we’re at
47<sup>th</sup> & <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sheridan</st1:place></st1:City>).
And we were not about to climb down in the creek just to get the trash
can.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Also, I thought Thursday was still “big
trash” pick up day….we put a twin size bed frame out (which we have
done before on a Thursday) and they didn’t take it…..Did I miss
something about a change for big trash pick up?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> towntalk-bounces@riverdale-park.org
[mailto:towntalk-bounces@riverdale-park.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>novella sargusingh<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 07, 2008
4:57 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> lisagrob@verizon.net; Lou King<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> TownTalk<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [RP TownTalk] trash
"cans"</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Here is a new twist on our new trash cans with wheels. Before leaving on
a field trip this morning, I placed my new trash can on the curb as I usually
do. During the second storm that came through this afternoon I just
happen to notice that my Bates trash can which was not put back on the
curb, had taken off down <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Taylor
Road</st1:address></st1:Street>!! Having just returned from the
field trip and barely had time to unload and get the kids inside before
the storm hit. I thought I was seeing things when the rush of the
water carried the trash can down the road with great speed. As
I was watching my trash can float away, I notice my neighbors
trash can was floating by as well (maybe they were in a race)<img
width=19 height=19 id="_x0000_i1025"
src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w3/pr01/emoticons/smile_omg.gif">. Now
I am not one to complain much, but I strongly believe that Bates
should be held accountable and put the darn trash cans back were they got them
from (THE CURB) instead of leaving them in the street.<br>
<br>
I want you to know that I called my husband who came to the rescue of both
trash cans at his own peril before they crossed Oglethorpe Street
or collide with oncoming traffic which had slowed down to avoid the
floating trash cans. Furthermore, he was stoking wet and pissed off
that the trash cans had been left in the street to begin with!! Please,
please let Bates know about this situation especially on <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Taylor Road</st1:address></st1:Street> because
it is a downward slope from were I live. Furthermore, I am certain
that my husband's rescue days are over!! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 08:51:32
-0500<br>
From: lisagrob@verizon.net<br>
To: lking@knob.com<br>
CC: TownTalk@riverdale-park.org<br>
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] trash "cans"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'> You don't have
to fill it :) I find it be easier than my smaller cans because it has
wheels. </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>On Tue, Aug 5, 2008
at 2:20 PM, Lou King wrote:</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>> Did I miss a
memo????</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>(Those of of you that
remember my rant about the SIZE of the recycle container can move on to the
next email.)</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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?</span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>{NOTE this is not the
"Cranky Old Coot" speaking but, me, his serious minded keeper.}</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>{I'm sorry, it is just
not possible to speak seriously about such a ludicrous situation.}</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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.</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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 <st1:place w:st="on">E. Beale</st1:place>. No, the
new behemoths will not fit.</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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!</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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.</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>In short what I see is
a system designed for the convenience of the trash collection entity -
customers (taxpayers) be damned.</span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Verdana><span
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Riverdale</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
and how that may effect my decisions next May. COC</span></font><font size=2
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