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Mayor Ron Corbett isn’t the only one at City Hall trying to figure out why city crews are picking up less garbage during their weekly curbside pickups.
In the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012, the amount of garbage picked up outside 40,000 households was down 672 tons, to 18,529 tons from 19,201 tons the year before, a 3.5 percent drop. It’s down 6.3 percent or 1,172 tons from the 19,701 tons picked up in the year that ended June 30, 2010.
At the first-year anniversary of the city-issued Garbys, Corbett wonders if the leaner-looking, gray-colored garbage containers somehow might be convincing people to put less into them and, perhaps, recycle more.
Why do you think less garbage is being collected? Do you use the Garby? What do you think of the Garby?
I agree that most of us are more aware of the need to recycle. I do believe and also am very aware that rates charged have increased to new highs. I would like to know what would reduce rates for garbage, water and sewer and the outragous charge for rain runoff?
(especially this year!)
Gee you don’t suppose it is that we are collecting no gatbage from 1300 homes flooded and demolished in the last three years. Plus about 4000 less business’s are gone from the flood and Ecomomy that has tanked! But those garbies must be the reason!
People tend to throw less stuff out (waste less) during a down economy.